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6 that it was so in other countries, that in Africa certain white animals were dying out and the black surviving; that the
white ate a poisonous weed the odor of which they seemed unable to discover while the black discovered it, avoided it, and
lived. As the Professor was continually claiming our descent route? relationship to animals, I remarked here, deleted: that
Then it is different with man, for it is claimed the black is giving way before the white . His answer was that all circumstances
being equal- ly favorable the black would survive the white. That the improved surround- ings of the white made them the stronger
where as the black naturally were the stronger. Did you ever hear such ar- guments. How did the white get their superior surroundings?
If Prof. Gunning is really a wise man I want you to tell me so I could not resist comparing the benefit derived from our intercourse
with Dr Gray. Sir Joseph yourself, to that derived from our several days with Prof. Gunning. He did not teach us one new
00768 2 4 not enjoy the surrounding scenery of Lake Tahoe as I do that of Big Meadows, and thought I could understand your
compare- ison bet the two. Lake Tahoe s scenery was sad and oppressive to me, while that of Big Meadows always is so cheerful,
harmonious, and exalting. There is a gladness combined with its grandeur which impresses me with a sense of its perfection.
I love to sit, and gaze, and drink it in; and each succeeding visit renders it more attractive to me. We also stopped at Virginia
City and after studying to science of mining as ex- hitited above ground, descended into the Ophir mine nineteen hundred feet
I confess to being very illegible to descend into the blackness depth, but the per- suasions of the party conquered, and the
result was that I saw more than I had ever expected to, of mining. It was a most interesting and in- structive experience,
and while thank- ful for having enjoyed the underlined: benefit , con-