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letterhead Jany 31 1895 Dear Mr. Muir-- Your friends have thought that you knew something about mountains--but, just
read the enclosed Volcanoes are illegible and just see how much there is yet to learn? Read it all, carefully, if you can.
As to Lassens', I know something about it. I have been there. There is no crater to Lassen--it is a sharp ridge cone. What
the writer calls Bummer's Hell, is not on the peak at all. It is Bumpass' Hell, named after Bumpass an old mountaineer, who
guided me to the place--it is at least three miles from the base of the cone, and is not a crater; but a level surface of
about 60 acres, sulphur and steam springs scattered about, and often to the surrounding country. How about Shasta? Is the
rim of the crater such a knife edge that explorers have had to break away the sharp crest to make a place to sleep ? And
then, what about the last paragraph In one night, a mountain thrown up, 25 miles in circumference, 2 miles high, steam and
smoke 17 miles high and explosions heard 2000 miles and