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2 like a hedge what masses of light shade in the ferns four to eight feet high beneath, with Trintalis s illegible Erythrea?
geranium. Here there a Mad illegible the most lavish masses of rose speraea in full bloom. The rose ten feet high flrs 3 inches
diameter deliciously fragrant fairly filling the air. The Mad illegible is in flr too so are all three of the Spiraens one
purple, two white. One of the white is a bush ten or 15 ft hight the most gloriously lavish in its bloom of all I ever beheld.
A branch half an inch in dia would have 40 or 50 p illegible six inches long upon it. bloom on bloom over leaning over lying
in a perfect storm of extra illegible . These roses, these sp illegible these glorious Enifers will have with me for- ever.
The glacial phenomena too are interesting beyond measure. The whole region hear abouts was overswept by an ice sheet from
the north. This is underlined: Certain . The direction of the flow at Victoria was a little to the east of illegible . The
harbo? is full of rock islets illegible illegible not at all changed by the action of the waves they are new born have but
just begun to feel the swash swell ripple of the sea 3 How strange it seems to see vessels large towns or indeed man
homes of any sort on so glacial a ground. It is as if one should come upon a town on the glacial illegible above Yosemite
All the scenery of Pugets Sound is suggestion of that of Lake Tahoe it is hard indeed to feel that one is really on an arm
of the sea not rather on an Alpine lake. I could this moment throw a stone into the woods so closely are we passing a lovely
pro illegible Oh dear I can tell you so little We had head winds a heavy sea the first two days. Most everyone but me were
seasick, The hope the joy the eager excitement all vanished from the faces of the afflicted company as if they had been born
in the most somber state of mind had so re mained. No company of mourners at the grave that I ever observed were half so deeply
gloom crushed. Yet the sea grand inspiring the fresh brim heaving in noble masses the brave gulls tracing there curves on
steady wing, warm while we shivered in the illegible of the cabins, ever arrow a company of whales spout? -ing lustily rolling
in grand enjoyment while their