Letter from John Muir to [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1897 Oct 16.
-2-imbricated over each other by the pressure of the snow so that the high slopes seem to be neatly and handsomely thatched. In this form it is seldom more than 3 or 4 feet high. Yet it bears fertile cones and seems thriftly and happy as if everything was to its mind. In this dwarfed form it reaches...
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ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-25539 2023-08-27T04:09:08+02:00 Letter from John Muir to [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1897 Oct 16. Muir, John 1897-10-16T08:00:00Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/606 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/25539/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/606 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/25539/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html John Muir Correspondence John Muir correspondence letters author writing naturalist California correspondent mail message post exchange of letters missive notes epistle text 1897 ftunivpacificdc 2023-08-07T20:22:53Z -2-imbricated over each other by the pressure of the snow so that the high slopes seem to be neatly and handsomely thatched. In this form it is seldom more than 3 or 4 feet high. Yet it bears fertile cones and seems thriftly and happy as if everything was to its mind. In this dwarfed form it reaches a height of 5500 feet. At a height of 4000 feet few of the erect trees are more than 50 ft. high, and one foot in dia. at the ground.”“The pine and spruce of the region lying between the head of Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek in great part give place to a handsome fir around the lake, and upward to the north and on the mountains. The tallest about a hundred feet, one foot diameter at ground, feathered with short branches from top to bottom. “The pine and spruce of the region lying between the head of Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek in great part give place to a handsome fir around the lake, and upward to the north and on the mountains. The tallest about a hundred feet, one foot diameter at ground, feathered with short branches from top to bottom. The cones are 3 inches long, one in diameter, dark purple, bracts short, dark colored, wings of seeds very dark, leaves 5/8 to 7/8 inch long, falcate, blunt, excepting those of leading shoot which are quite sharp. Mostly pale yellow-green. The mountainside on the west side of the lake is forested with this tree – leaves all around the branches.”This, I guess, is enough. Goodbye. Remember me to good lively boyish Cicuta CanbyEver yours,JOHN MUIR02350 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/25539/thumbnail.jpg Text Dease Lake University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons Dease Lake ENVELOPE(-129.987,-129.987,58.436,58.436) The Cones ENVELOPE(78.344,78.344,-68.635,-68.635) |
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-2-imbricated over each other by the pressure of the snow so that the high slopes seem to be neatly and handsomely thatched. In this form it is seldom more than 3 or 4 feet high. Yet it bears fertile cones and seems thriftly and happy as if everything was to its mind. In this dwarfed form it reaches a height of 5500 feet. At a height of 4000 feet few of the erect trees are more than 50 ft. high, and one foot in dia. at the ground.”“The pine and spruce of the region lying between the head of Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek in great part give place to a handsome fir around the lake, and upward to the north and on the mountains. The tallest about a hundred feet, one foot diameter at ground, feathered with short branches from top to bottom. “The pine and spruce of the region lying between the head of Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek in great part give place to a handsome fir around the lake, and upward to the north and on the mountains. The tallest about a hundred feet, one foot diameter at ground, feathered with short branches from top to bottom. The cones are 3 inches long, one in diameter, dark purple, bracts short, dark colored, wings of seeds very dark, leaves 5/8 to 7/8 inch long, falcate, blunt, excepting those of leading shoot which are quite sharp. Mostly pale yellow-green. The mountainside on the west side of the lake is forested with this tree – leaves all around the branches.”This, I guess, is enough. Goodbye. Remember me to good lively boyish Cicuta CanbyEver yours,JOHN MUIR02350 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/25539/thumbnail.jpg |
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