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find my old route. Darkness was coming on I had two hours work of a dangerous kind, but by running jumping, sliding, tumbling,
floating besides other modes of locomotion terrestrial agnatic I accomplished my crazzy task in half time, illegible - ed
a long fast a night upon the mountain in the cold - The sunlight is very rich warm today - almost balmy the magnificent waterfalls
just coming over the rocks there half-a mile in height have been supplied with plenty of melting snow are singing the most
divine of Natures deep harmonies Something or other jostled a bunch of the old Mondell memories I thought of the days when
I came in fresh illegible from the illegible woods, when I used to hurl very orthodox de illegible ciations at all things
morally or religiously amiss in old or young. It appears strange to me that you should all have been so patient with me I
am making a illegible here have plenty of books to read besides this rocky book of Nature between whose leaves I am shut in
like a fly Well here comes the bottom of my page so goodbye I hope that 1870 has a great many blessings for you I
in margin: hope that at all times when a friend is needed you will count on John Muir