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1 Yosemite Dec 17th 71 Dear Joseph Le Conte My seasons work is done I have had one general view of the Merced basin above
Yosemite am astonished at the magnitude of the ancient glaciers with wh it was universally flooded, of the work wh they accomplished,
This entire basin is one glacial monument covered with the earnest eloquent language of Nature gra illegible ed in small live
characters too illegible for our eyes also in characters of Canon some wh are difficult to see read only because of their
magnitude. I do not hope to illegible illegible sentences wh will make an English translation of what I have seen heard. I
only hope to make you come see for yourself. If you could be made to feel the truth chapters wh are here, you would come at
once without looking at times duties like an attracted atom going to a magnet, strange that manufactured properties duties
should so shackle cobweb Gods human flies, but next year you will have what you call vacation then mankind your wife will
let you come, but I will tell you a few baits to make sure of you the Merced ice basin was bounded by the summits by two spires
wh once reached to the summits, viz the Hoffman drawing with writing: Yo Sem Hoff range summits Obelisk range Obelisk ranges,
thus - In this basin not one island existed All its highest peaks were washed overflowed by the ice, Starr King. South Dome
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