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1 Sissons Station Dec 21st 1874 Dear Mrs Carr. I have just returned from a fourth Shasta excursion find yours of 17th.
I wish you could have been with me in Shastas shoulder last eve in the sunglow. I was over on the head waters of the McCloud
what a head Think of a spring giving rise to a river I fairly quiver with joyous exultation when I think of it. The infinity
of Natures glory in rock cloud water. As soon as I beheld the McCloud upon its lower course I knew their must be something
extraordinary in its alpine fountains I shouted 2 O where my glorious river do you come from? Think of a Spring 50 yards
wide at the mouth iss illegible from the base of a lava bluff with wild songs. Not gloomily from a dark cavey mouth but from
a world of ferns mosses gold green I broke my way through chaparral all kinds of river bank tangle in eager vigor utterly
un illegible able The dark blue stream sang solemnly with a deep voice pooling bowlder dashing underlined: a-h-a-a-aing in
white flashing rapids when suddenly I heard water notes I never had heard before. They came from that mysterious spring then
the Elk forest the Alpine Glow the sunset, poor pen, cannot tell if in margin: 96