Letter from John Muir to [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1897 Oct 16.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1897
• Subjects: John Muir; correspondence; letters; author; writing; naturalist; California; correspondent; mail; message; post; exchange of letters; missive; notes; epistle; Dease Lake; The Cones
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/606; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/25539/type/native/viewcontent

-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...