My First Summer 



unnamed, as far as I know, on the north. 

 One of these last is much like the Cathe- 

 dral. The grass of the meadows is mostly 

 fine and silky, with exceedingly slender 

 leaves, making a close sod, above which 

 the panicles of minute purple flowers seem 

 to float in airy, misty lightness, w r hile the 

 sod is enriched with at least three species 

 of gentian and as many or more of ortho- 

 carpus, potentilla, ivesia, solidago, pent- 

 stemon, with their gay colors, purple, 

 blue, yellow, and red, all of which I 

 may know better ere long. A central camp 

 will probably be made in this region, from 

 which I hope to make long excursions into 

 the surrounding mountains. 



On the return trip I met the flock about 

 three miles east of Lake Tenaya. Here we 

 camped for the night near a small lake lying 

 on top of the divide in a clump of the two- 

 leaved pine. We are now about nine thousand 

 feet above the sea. Small lakes abound in all 

 sorts of situations, on ridges, along moun- 



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