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8 of wh I succeeded in making my way, discovered that my so called underlined: snowbank was clear green ice, comparing
the form of the basin wh it occupied with similar adjacent basins that were empty I was led to the opinion that this glacier
was several hundred feet in depth. Then I went to the snowbanks of Mts Lyell McCure believed that they also were true glaciers
that dozen other snow banks seen from the summit of Mt Lyell crouching in shadow were glaciers living as any in the world
busily engaged in completing that vast work of mountain making, accomplished by their giant relatives now dead, wh united
continuous covered all the range from summit to sea like a sky 2 5 On one of the yellow days of last October 71 when
I was among the mountains of the Merced Group , following the footprints of the ancient glaciers that once flowed grandly
from their ample fountains, reading what I could of their history as written in Moraines Canons lakes carved rocks, I came
upon a small stream that was carry- ing mud of a kind I had not before seen. In a calm place where the stream widened I collected
some of this mud observed that it was entirely mineral in composition fine as flour, like the mud from a fine grit grindstone.
Before I had time to reason, I said, Glacier Mud - Mountain Meal Then I observed that this 00625