falls was sublimily at my feet. To the right waved the subsiding timbered billows of the foothills. Still beyond the yellow
hazy plains, still farther upon the rim of the sky loomed the blue flowing mountains of the coast. To the Eastward the jagged
spirey peaks of the Sierra crest were bathed? in equal transparent light each mantled reposingly in their first treasures
of snow - I sat gazing for an hour or two giving myself ample time for mind body to sponge themselves full of beauty - sketched
a represent- ative portion of the panorama started for the nether world by a new route. - Got on bravely until full half way
down when I was suddenly halted by a sheer descent of five or six hundred feet - had to march back to the every top