Letters to a Friend 



ecy of "the Priests" that you would see it and 

 worship there with your Doctor and Priest and 

 I. It is by far the grandest of all of the special 

 temples of Nature I was ever permitted to en 

 ter. .It must be the sanctum sanctorum of the 

 Sierras, and I trust that you will all be led to it. 

 Remember me to the Doctor. I hope he 

 has the pleasure of sowing in good and honest 

 hearts the glorious truth of science to which he 

 has devoted his life. Give my love to all your 

 boys and my little Butler. 



Adieu. 



J. MUIR. 



Address: 



Hopeton, Merced Co., Cala. 



At a sheep ranch between the 



Tuolumne and Stanislaus rivers, 



November 1st, [1868.] 



I was extremely glad to receive yet one more 

 of your ever welcome letters. It found me two 

 weeks ago. I rode over to Hopeton to seek for 

 letters. I had to pass through a bed of Compos 

 ite two or three miles in diameter. They were 

 in the glow of full prime, forming a lake of the 

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