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1 On board the Zephyr between Steilicoom Olympia June 25th 1879. I wish I could tell you how beautiful our sail has been
ever since we entered the Straits of F illegible The shores are de illegible ly timbered with the most lovely comfers Arbutus
(Madrono) down to the waters edge the jutting headlands long promout illegible islets, islands; bays sound inlets rivers are
so varied so marvelously composed that the whole is one extr illegible tly lovely fairy land. And then even from the steamer
the glacial handwriting is so clear telling on so grand a scale that I have been nervous excited beyond all control. I m sorry
I have to do so soon, for the details of this grand poem of God can never be read by me. We landed at Esquimalt 3 ms from
Victoria down to town along a well built road which mazes around past unumerable big up swelling rocky mountains? fresh telling
scarce at all changed by post glacial erosion, on every bed of sail between the rocks the most luxuriant densest growth of
Comfers I ever saw. How fresh sweet hopeful they are they bounded the road in margin: Alaska in margin: 00855