00446 has throbed tingled with the same mysterious powers when you were here - Farewell I am glad to know that you have
been allowed to bathe your existence in Gods glorious Sierra Nevadas sorry that I could not meet you John Muir A few
miles north of Yo-Semite July 13th We are camped this afternoon upon the bank of the stream that falls into the Valley opposite
Hutchings hotel (Yo Semite falls) we are perhaps three miles from the Valley. This Yo - Sem' stream is flowing rapidly here
in a small flowery meadow, not wandering? like a meadow stream but going straight on with ripples rapids It derives it waters
from a basin corresponding in every respect with its own sublimity loveliness July 17th We are now camped in a splendid grove
of spruce only one mile from the Yo Sem' wall The stream that goes spraying past us in the rocks reaches the Valley by that
Canon between the Yo Sem' falls the north dome. I left my companion in charge of the sheep for the last three days have had
a most heavenly piece of life among the domes falls rocks of the north side upper end of valley Yesterday I found the stream
that flows through crystal lakes past the South dome followed it three miles among cascades rapids to the dome. Were you at
the top or bottom of the in margin: upper Yo Sem' falls. Were you at the top of Nevada falls. Were you in that Adiantum
cave by the Vernal falls. Have you had any view from the rim of the valley excepting? from the Mariposa trail How long were
you in Sequoia grove