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wh flowed at right angles to those later larger ones of the summits Now there is a very deep canon on the left of Yosemite
falls wh has compelled me to think to it every day for more than a year I could not account for its formation in any other
way than by supposing the existence of a glacier in the basin above as one of the conditions Last Sabbath the big truth came
to the birth. I ran out of the valley by Indian Canon, round to the top of the falls - said my prayers in the irised spray
started for the upper end of the basin ten or twelve miles distant hoping somewhere to discover positive evidence of my missing
glacier in the higher deeper portions of its channel where it would linger longest, or where it had been compelled to 6
wedge through some narrow place thus hardening more deeply grooving the granite wh then would not be so susceptible of disintegration
Well I had not gone four miles ere I found all I had so long sought you might have heard a shout in concord This glacier was
about 12 ms' in length by about 6 in breath, Of the depth I have as yet no data. Its course was nearly at right angles to
the summit glaciers perhaps it was not born quite so early as they. I am sure that it died long before they were driven from
the canons of the Tenaya Nevada streams. I have just finished a first reading of your Society? Solitude. The poems I have
head several times. I have 7