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4 by some great plant purpose they had co illegible from every plain, mountain, meadows of their kingdom, that the different
coloring of patches, acres miles, marked the bounds of the various tribe family encampments, and now just stop see what I
gathered from one square yard opposite the Merced, I have no books so cannot give specific names - Ords' Open fls' Species
Comp' 132125 2 Yellow 3305 heads Leg 2620 2 Purple White Scroph 169 7 Purple Umb' 620 1 Yellow Geran' 22 1 Purple Rub' 40
1 White ----- 85 Nat ord unknown ------ 60 Plants unflowred Polenion' 407 2 Purple Grara' 29830 3 Stems about 700, spikelets
10700 Total of open fls 165912 fls in bud say 100,000 The yellow of these Comps' withered 40000 is extremely deep rich bossy
Nat ords' 9-11 as though the sun had filled Species 16-17 their petals with a portion of Mosses 1000000 his very self - it
exceeds the purple of all the others in superficial quantity forty or fifty times their whole amount, but to an observer who
first looks downward then takes a more more distant view, the yellow gradually fades purple flowers are higher. In depth the
purple stratum is about ten or twelve inches, the yellow, seven or eight second purple of mosses, one - I'm sorry my page
is done I have not told anything in margin: I thought of you Mrs. Carr, when I was in glorious Yosemite of the prophecy
of the Priest: that? you would see it worship there in company with your Doctor Priest I. It is by far the grandest of all
of His special temples of Nature I was even permitted to enter. It must be the sanctum sanctorum of the Sierras I trust that
you you will all be led to it. 00453