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2 more if I can then perhaps I will follow the Tuolumne down to the Hetch Hetctry Yosemite Then perhaps follow every Yosemite
stream back to its smallest sources in the mountains of the Lyell group the Cathedral group the Obelisk Mt Hoffman This will
perhaps be my work untill the coming of the winter snows when I will probably find a sheltered rock nook where I can make
a nest of leaves mosses doze until spring. I expect to be entirely alone in these mountain walks not withstanding the glorious
portion of daily bread wh my soul will receive in these fields where only the footprints of God are seen, the gloomin will
be very lonely, but I will cheerfully pay this juice? of friendship hung- er and all besides 3 I suppose you have seen
Mr King who kindly carried some flies for Mr Edwards. I thought you would easily see him or let him know that you had his
specimens I collected most of them upon Mt Hoffman, but was so busy in assisting Reilly that I could not do much in butterflies.
Hereafter I shall be entirely free The purples yellows begin to come in the green of our groves the rocks have the autumn
haze the water songs are at their lowest hushings, Young birds are big as old ones it is the time of ripe berries, is it true
that those are Bryants Melancholy days; I dont know; I will not think but I will go above these brooding days to the higher
brighter mountains Farewell Cordially ever yrs John Muir