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2 As a illegible first then I rejoice at the birth of every Scot in general, every Muir in particular, I am glad to hear
that there is illegible illegible of your soon engaging in the good work furnishing illegible of precious scotch element to
the grand human mass of the earth As for myself I am lost absorbed - Captivated with the divine in fathomable loneliness grandeur
of Nature. Somehow I feel separated from the mass of mankind, I do not know whether I can return to the or- dinary modes of
feeling thinking or not, I work hard for the means of traveling, find myself able to make what is called a fortune in a great
variety of ways, but bread sunshine birds flowers open sky are enough for the comfort delight of my existence