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the farther you go the greater will be your joy. Every creature belonging to God when lovingly studied leads up to himself
along a way that ever becomes more more brilliantly lighted; no terrestrial way is more delightful to human feet than flowers.
Never mind very much about your plants being new. They are all new, everyone of them is full of God. Think what hosts of new
friends you will make among those handsome people of God how they will lighten brighten enrich your life, go on, go on, see
how they will extend your vision. This is the center of the great white Pine mining? excitement. No less than 28,000 claims
were made, only 15 of which are now worked, of these only one the Eberhardt gives much hope or money. Hamilton Treasure City
are silent now. but Natures work goes on gloriously Our course from here his southward along the W illegible Pine Range, about
eighty miles thence eastward to the Snake Range on across Utah. Our address will be underlined: Hamilton Nevada until the
end of the month, having made arrangements to have our letters forwarded from here. hearty regards to the general? in margin:
Your home must be very beautiful with its fruits flowers. that grand magnaminous old fig tree - Resting under a vine or fig
tree is laden with meaning in this sunbeaten land, With more thanks I am ever Cordially yr friend John Muir