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Grand Hotel S.F. July 14 1889. Dear Louie its late but here is a bit you will like I will write very fast part of todays
composition. The upper Snoqualmie Falls is about 75 ft high, with bouncing rapids at head foot, set in a romantic dell thatched
with dripping mosses ferns embowered in dense evergreens blooming bushes. The road to it leads through majestic woods with
ferns ten feet long beneath the trees, across a gravelly plain disforested by fire many years ago, where orange lilies abound
bright shiny mats of the Kinikinik sprinkled with scarlet berries. From a place called Hunts at the end of the wagon road
a trail leads through fresh dripping woods never dry - Merten? Menzies Douglas spruce, maple and Thuja. The ground is covered
with the best moss-work of the moist 01366