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in margin: Stoddard Chris W. Stoddard underlined: John Muir. 00687 Rome the Eternal? 8th July 74. Dear illegible
-man. Rome is running rivers of good honest illegible just now, would you like it, think you? I d give much to see you footing?
it amongst these wearysom ruins; how ugly they are, illegible the Old City its self is a kind of respectable bore. Rome is
the Sierras There is all the difference between them that there is between bone dust and young granite. There is no pine spiced
air here: our lungs are full of infinitely small relics of the past; the Coliseum and