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4 literally glorious in May and June with rhododendron and other flowering shrubs. Your second question is have you been
on the Three Sisters. Yes on the centre north the former on July 28th the latter on Sept. 10th 1875. 3d How many glaciers
are there on these flanks. Yo my position knowledge these are three acive ones each sending its stream of pulp (they would
say in N illegible to the lowlands east and west. I do not say there are not other active ones but these I have visited; the
largest four times. Now, allow me to ask you the cost of an aneroid faronetes suitable to in margin: 366 take altitudes, gier
size in diameter inclus with piece. Don t forget that I promised you any data I possessed underlined: if you came here . Come.
Respectfully Truly P.C. Renfrew 00836 1 McKenzie Bridge Oregon Feb 26th 1879 Mr. John Muir Dear Sir, There are
occasions in my life as there must be in that of every man who, in the love of nature holds communion with her that may be
called epochs; when, overawed by her majesty I am lifted out of myself and individuality with all that encumbers it is for
the moment extinguished. This I just experienced on the deck of a Pacific Steamship witnessing sunrise on a perfectly waveless
sea, Next on viewing from above, a fog filled valley of the southern Sierra at Sunrise, again, on my first sweeping view of
the Yosemite Valley and last when standing on the north western glacier of the volcanos known as the Three Sisters .