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12 in perfect affinity made me strong Towards evening after passing through miles of blooming h illegible I reached illegible
on the edge of the oak fringe of the Merced. Here all were yellow woe begone with malarious fever I rested one day spending
the time in examining the remarkable flat water eroded Valley of the Merced the geological sections wh it offers. In going
across to the river I had a suggestive time breaking my way through tangles of blackberry brier rose willow. I admire delicate
plants that are well prickled therefore took my scratched face hands pat illegible I bathed in the sacred stream. seeming
to catch all its mountain tones while it softly mumbled rippled over the shallows of brown peebles. The whole river back to
its icy sources seemed to rise in clear vi illegible with its countless cas cades falls blooming meadows gardens. Its pine
groves too the winds that play them, all appeared sounded 13 In the cool of the evening I caught Browny cantered across
to the Tuolumne with hemizunia? A breeze swept in from your golden gate regions over the passes across the plains fanning
the hot ground drooping plants, refreshing every beast bird weary pladding wave? . It was dark ere I reached my old friend
Delaney but was instantly recognized by my voice, welcomed in the old good uncivilized way not to be misunderstood all the
region adjacent to the Tuolumne River where it sweeps out into the plain after its long eventful journey in the mountains
is exceedingly picturesque, round terraced hills brown yellow with grasses compositae adorned with open groves of darkly ferlaged
live oak There hills are grouped in a most open tranquil manner laid upon a smooth level base of purple plain while the river
banks is lined with rock