Letters to a Friend 



Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy are lake-basins 

 filled with sand and the matter of moraines 

 washed from the upper canons. The Yosemite 

 ice, in escaping from the Yosemite basin, was 

 compelled to flow upward a considerable height 

 on both sides of the bottom walls of the valley. 

 The canon below the valley is very crooked 

 and very narrow, and the Yosemite glacier 

 flowed across all of its crooks and high above 

 its walls without paying any compliance to it, 

 thus: [drawing here]. The light lines show the 

 direction of the ice-current. 



Yosemite Valley, 



March 30, 1873. 



Your two last are received. The package of 

 letters was picked up by a man in the valley. 

 There was none for thee. I have Hetch Hetchy 

 about ready. I did not intend that Tenaya ram 

 ble for publication, but you know what is better. 



I mean to write and send all kinds of game to 

 you with hides and feathers on, for if I wait 

 until all become one, it may be too long. 

 [ 145] 



