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4 to Hampton afoot. Here I built a little unpretentious successor to snag out of some gnarled illegible twisted fencing,
launched it in the Merced opposite the village, rowed down into the San Joaquin; thence down the San Joaquin past Stockton
through the tule region into the bay near Martinez. Here I aboad illegible my boat set off cross lots, for Mt. Dia illegible
Spent a night on the summit, walked the next day into Oakland here my fine summers wanderings came to an end. And now I find
that this mere skeleton fingerboard indication of my excursion has filled at least the space of a long letter, while I have
told you nothing of my gains. If you were nearer I would take a day or two come report, talk i illegible terately in out of
season until you would be glad to have me once more in the canons silence, but Chico is far, I can only finish with a catalogue
of my new riches, setting them down one after the other like words in a spelling book 1st - Four or five Square miles Sequoia
2 - The ages of 26 specimen Sequoia. of the Central plain of Cala. 3 - A fine fact about bears. 8 A picturesque cluster of
facts concerning the 4 - A sure measurement of the river birds animals. deepest of all the ancient glaciers 9 A glorious series
of new landscapes with yet traced in the Sierra. mountain furniture furniture of the most 5 - Two waterfalls of the first
order ravishing grandeur beauty. Cascades innumerable. 6 - underlined: A new Yosemite Valley 7 - Grand facts concerning the
formation