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2. I do not hope to make any adequate translation of what I have seen and heard. I only hope to make you come and see for
yourself. If you could be made to feel the truth that is here you would come like an atom to the magnet without a thought
of time or duties. (I wonder that manu- factured proprieties and duties should so shackle and cobweb God's human flies.) But
next year you will have what you call vacation, when mankind and your wife will let you come, but I set a few baits to make
sure of you. The Merced ice basin was bounded by the summits, and by two spurs which once 3. reached to the summits,
viz. the Hoffman and Obelisk ranges, thus - Summits drawing In this basin not one island existed. All its highest peaks
were washed and overflowed by the ice. Starr King. South Dome - and all. Some ice from about Mt Lyell and Dana, ect broke
over the Hoffman range into the Tuolumne basin below the Soda Springs, thus cutting off the Hoffman from the