Letters to a Friend 



My love to Allie and all your boys and to the 

 Doctor. Tell him that I have been tracing 

 glaciers in all the principal canons towards the 

 summit. 



Ever thine, 



J. MUIR. 



Yosemite, August 2Oth, [1870.] 



I have just returned from a ten days' ramble 

 with Prof. Le Conte and his students in the be 

 yond, and oh, we have had a most glorious season 

 of terrestrial grace. I do wish I could ramble 

 ten days of equal size in very heaven, that I 

 could compare its scenery with that of Bloody 

 Canon and the Tuolumne meadows and Lake 

 Tenaya and Mt. Dana. Our first camp after 

 leaving the valley was at Eagle Point, overlook 

 ing the valley on the north side, from which a 

 much better general view of the valley and the 

 high crest of the Sierra beyond is obtained than 

 from Inspiration Point. There we watched the 

 long shadows of sunset upon the living map at 

 our feet, and, in the later darkness half silvered 

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