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3 guide-bookish stuff about Mt Whitney Mt Tyndall might well have been spared, but Mountains so important had to receive
some sort of mention I had no space for anything like description. One way another throughout the paper I have tried to show
the Valley the forest below it the great mass of High Sierra above it if it has no flavor of the region I will be disappointed.
As to delay I am sure you will pardon me when you recal the changes that have come over our home. I had my mountain shoes
ready last October for the Kings trip to refresh my memory make measurements etc. when Dr Strentzel left us. The Alaska papers
I shall work on now. The map especially the