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1 Lissons Station Dec 9th 1874 Dear Mrs Carr Coming in for a sleep rest I was glad to receive your card. I seem to be
more than married to Icy Shasta One yellow mellow? morning six days ago when Shastas snows were looming blooming I stept outside
the barroom door to gaze, was instantly drawn up over the meadows, over the forests, to the main Shasta glacier in one rushing
cosmetic? whizz then swooping to Shasta Valley whirled off around the base like a satellite of the grand icy Sun. I have just
completed my first revolution Length of orbit 100 miles-, Time one Shasta day 2 For two days a half I had nothing in
the way of food yet suffered nothing was finely nerved for the most delicate work of mountaineering both among crevasses lava
cliffs. Now I am sleeping underlined: eating I found some geological facts that are perfectly glorious botanical ones too.
I wish I could make the public be kind to Keith his paint so you contemplate vines oranges among the warm California angels,
I wish you would all go a granging among oranges bananas all such blazing red hot fruits for you are a species of Hindoe sun
fruit yourself. For me I like better the huckleberries of cool glacial bogs, acid currants