Letter from John Muir to [Joseph] Le Conte, 1872 Apr 27.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1872
• Subjects: John Muir; correspondence; letters; author; writing; naturalist; California; correspondent; mail; message; post; exchange of letters; missive; notes; epistle; Arctic; Hen
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/12646; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/37580/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

2& character may be positively known. Glaciers retired slowly & steadily from the foot of the range to their present shadowy hidings in the summits, where they are now dying one by one. These glaciers seem to have been followed by a [illegible] of arctic plants of varying width from first to...