5 Most honored Sir I have received with great pleasure your book on the National Park of the United States; it is with
sentiments of most lively gratitude that I wish to thank send you thanks on account of the high value of the book I have followed
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of nature in America as if I had was able (to) seen see) them with my own eyes My desire to visit the places that you delineate
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take? touch? your hand on the soil of California Also these are illegible things impossible to realize but (the reading your
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