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2 all near together like eggs in a nest, three El Capitans a couple of Tissiacks, Canons glorious with yellows reds of
Mtn Maple aspen honeysuckle ash, new illegible able underlined: music unmeasurable from strange waters winds, glaciers too
flowing grinding, alive as any on earth shall I pull you out some? Here is a clean white skinned glacier from the back of
McClure with glossy emerald flesh singing crystal blood, All bright pure as a sky; yet handling mud stone like a wavy in margin:
narry? building moraine? like a plodding illegible bman. Here is a cascade 200 feet wide, half a mile long - deleted:? glaveing
this way that; filled with bounce dance joyous hurrah, yet earnest as 3 tempest, singing like angels loose on a frolic
from heaven, deleted? ''- here is in margin: are your cascades deleted more ; broad flat like clouds fringed like flowing
hair, in margin: with occasional falls illegible as pines, deleted: lakes like glowing eyes, how are visions too, dreams,?
a splendid set of ghosts, too many for ink narrow paper. I had not heard anything concerning LeContes Glacier lecture but
he seems to have drawn all he knows of Sierra glaciers new theories concerning them. So directly from underlined: here that
I can- not think he will claim dis- covery etc; If he does I will not be made poorer. Prof Kneeland? Sec Boston Institute
of Technology gathered some letters I sent to Runkle that Tribune letter hashed them