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I wish that you all might read the beauty the love wh covers this mountain part of Gods beautiful earthly star. You know that
I never was very illegible and illegible holding that in our zeal for the improvement of others we were liable to neglect
ourselves, but now I feel like preaching these mountains like an apostle, John Baptist could hardly be more anxious to get
people into the Jordan than I to have all nations tongues baptized in this glorious terrestrial mountain beauty. Next spring
send one of your member to Yosemite - either a Trout or a Jay I will bear at least half the pecuniary expense I will see that
he or she has abundance of bread of mountains all that is required for a family missionary on terrestrial revelations that
on his return you all my have preaching according to California then you would be far happier you would love each other the
world your bible far better, Our illegible are wearing their first snow jewels they are perfectly glorious, I am engaged in
the study of the ancient glacier system of this portion of the Sierra Prof Runkle, President of the Boston Institute of Tech-
nology has set me to writing a book on the subject for the Boston Academy of Sciences. I wish I had time to tell you about
my long lone rambles I shall see you sometime Farewell, Ever Cordialy your friend. John Muir