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3 off into the glorious wilderness, following the general direction of the South Fork a few miles back from the brink until
I had crossed three tributary canons from 1500 to 2000 feet deep. In the Eastmost Middle were of the three I was delighted
to discover some four or five square miles of Sequoia where I had long guessed the existence of these grand old tree kings.
After this capital discovery I made my way to the bottom of the main South Fork Canon down a rugged side gorge having a descent
of more than 4000 feet. This was at a point about two miles above the confluence of Bowld illegible Creek. From here I pushed
slowly on up the bottom of the canon, through brush avalanch? boulders, past many a charming fall garden sacred to Nature,
at length reached the grand Yosemite, at the head, where I stopped two days to make some measurements of the cliffs cascades.
This done, I crossed over the divide to the Middle Fork by a pass 12,200 feet high, struck the head of a small tributary that
conducted me to the head of the Main Middle Fork Canon - which I followed down through its entire length, though it has illegible
been regarded as absolutely inaccessible in its lower reaches. This accomplished, all my necessary sketches measurements made,
I climbed the canon wall below the confluence of the Mid South Forks came out at Converses? again then back to Hydes Hill,
Visalia, thence to Merced City by rail; thence by stage to Snelling thence