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00673 4 glorious. I got back from Whitney this P M. How I shall sleep, my life rose, wave like, with those lofty granite
waves now it may wearily flat in margin: float for a time along the smooth flowery plains. Love to all my friends Ever cordially
yrs John Muir in margin: It seems that this new Fishermans Pk is causing some stir in the newspapers If I feel writeful
I will send you a sketch of the region for the Overland 1 46. Independence Oct underlined: 16 th 1873 Dear Mrs Carr.
All of my seasons Mountain work is done. I have just come down from Mt Whitney the newly discovered Mtn five miles N.W. of
Whitney, now our journey is a simple saunter along the base of the range to Tahoe where we will arrive about the end of the
month or a few days earlier. I have seen a good deal more of the high Mtn region about the head of Kings Kern Rivers than
I expected to do in so short so late a time Two weeks ago I left the Doctor Billie in the Kings River Yosemite set out for