In the Sierra 



wonderful sculpture, all their grandeur re- 

 fined and doubled, - - a marvelously im- 

 pressive picture, that seemed to belong more 

 to heaven than earth. 



August 9. I went ahead of the flock, 

 and crossed over the divide between the 



ONE OF THE TRIBUTARY FOUNTAINS OF THE TUOLUMNE 



CANON WATERS, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE 



HOFFMAN RANGE 



Merced and Tuolumne basins. The gap be- 

 tween the east end of the Hoffman spur and 

 the mass of mountain rocks about Cathe- 

 dral Peak, though roughened by ridges and 

 waving folds, seems to be one of the chan- 



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