In the Sierra 



journeys, hence the name. It is about half 

 a mile long, draining into the Merced, 

 sedgy in the middle, with a margin bright 

 with lilies, columbines, larkspurs, lupines, 

 castilleia, then an outer zone of dry, gently 

 sloping ground starred with a multitude of 

 small flowers, eunanus, mimulus, gilia, 

 with rosettes of spraguea,and tufts of several 

 species of eriogonum and the brilliant 

 zauschneria. The noble forest wall about it is 

 made up of the two silver firs and the yellow 

 and sugar pines, which here seem to reach 

 their highest pitch of beauty and grandeur; 

 for the elevation, six thousand feet or a 

 little more, is not too great for the sugar 

 and yellow pines or too low for the mag- 

 nifica fir, while the concolor seems to find 

 this elevation the best possible. About a 

 mile from the north end of the flat there is 

 a grove of Sequoia gigantea, the king of all 

 the conifers. Furthermore, the Douglas 

 spruce (PseudotsugaDouglasii)and Libocedrus 

 decurrens, and a few two-leaved pines, occur 



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