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clear view in every direction. On good 

 moraine soil it reaches a height of from 

 forty to sixty feet, with dense gray foliage. 

 The rings of the trunk are very thin, eighty 

 to an inch of diameter in some specimens 

 I examined. Those ten feet in diameter 

 must be very old thousands of years. 

 Wish I could live, like these junipers, on 

 sunshine and snow, and stand beside them 

 on the shore of Lake Tenaya for a thousand 

 years. How much I should see, and how 

 delightful it would be ! Everything in the 

 mountains would find me and come to me, 

 and everything from the heavens like light. 

 The lake was named for one of the chiefs 

 of the Yosemite tribe. Old Tenaya is said 

 to have been a good Indian to his tribe. 

 When a company of soldiers followed his 

 band into Yosemite to punish them for 

 cattle-stealing and other crimes, they fled 

 to this lake by a trail that leads out of the 

 upper end of the valley, early in the spring, 

 while the snow was still deep ; but being 



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