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00529 6 repeated covered with a close sheet of snow flowers. Some mosses grow luxuriantly upon the dead generations of
their own species The common snow flowers belong to the sky in storm are blown about like ripe petals in an orchard, they
settle on the ground. the bottom of the atmospheric sea like mud or leaves in a lake. upon this soil - this field of broken
sky flowers grows a luxuriant carpet of crystal vegetation complete ripe in a single night. I never before knew that these
mountain snow plants were so variable abundant forming such bushy clumps thickets palmy ferny groves - 7 in margin: Squirrel
is at my knee She says illegible Mrs Carr to come here tomorrow tell her to bring her little boy when she comes If you will
come she says that she will illegible you to the falls give you lots of flowers wading waist deep I had fine opportunities
for observing them but they shrink from hum- an breath - not the only flowers which do so - evidently not made for man. neither
the flowers composing the snow which come drifting down to us broken dead, nor the more beautiful crystals which vegetate
upon them. - A great many storms have come to the mtns since I passed them there can hardly be less than ten feet at the altitude
of Tamarac towards the summit still more. The weather here is balmy now the falls are glorious Three weeks ago the thermom'-
at sunrise stood at 12 -