22 Hazel green water famous among mountaineers distilled from the pores of an ancient moraine-spiced toned in a maze of
fragrant roots Winter nor summer warm or cold it shadows over shadows keep its fountains ever cool Moss felted leaves guard
from spring autumn frosts while a wooly robe of snow protects from the intenser cold of winter Bears deer birds Indians love
the water nuts of Hazel green alike. While the pine squirrel reigns supreme haunts its incomparable groves like a spirit Here
a grand old glacier swept over from the Tuolumne ice fountains into basin of the Merced leaving the Hazel green moraine for
the food of her corning trees, fountains of her predestined waters. 00691 23 Along the Merced divide to the ancient glacial
lake bowl of Cranes Flat was ever fir or pine more perfect what groves What Combinations of green silver gray glowing white
of glinting sunbeams. Where is leaf or limb awanting is this the upshot of the so called Mountain glooms mountain storms If
so is Sierra forestry aught beside an out flow of Divine Love. These round bottomed grooves sweeping across the divide down
whose sides our horses canter with accelerated speed are the pathways of ancient ice-currents it is just where these crushing
glaciers have borne down most heavily that the greatest loveliness of grove forest appears. A deep canon filled with blue
air now comes in view on the right. That is the valley of the Merced the highest rocks visible through the trees belong to
the Yosemite Valley. More miles of glorious forest then out into free light down down down