SHASTA RAMBLES 



watchful attitude will be likely to make you 

 go cautiously through the bog where it stands, 

 as if you were approaching a dangerous snake. 

 It also occurs in a bog near Sothern's Station 

 on the stage-road, where I first saw it, and in 

 other similar bogs throughout the mountains 

 hereabouts. 



The "Big Spring" of the Sacramento is 

 about a mile and a half above Sisson's, issuing 

 from the base of a drift-covered hill. It is lined 

 with emerald algae and mosses, and shaded 

 with alder, willow, and thorn bushes, which 

 give it a fine setting. Its waters, apparently 

 unaffected by flood or drouth, heat or cold, 

 fall at once into white rapids with a rush and 

 dash, as if glad to escape from the darkness to 

 begin their wild course down the canon to the 

 plain. 



Muir's Peak, a few miles to the north of the 

 spring, rises about three thousand feet above 

 the plain on which it stands, and is easily 

 climbed. The view is very fine and well repays 

 the slight walk to its summit, from which much 

 of your way about the mountain may be stud- 

 ied and chosen. The view obtained of the 

 Whitney Glacier should tempt you to visit it, 

 since it is the largest of the Shasta glaciers and 

 its lower portion abounds in beautiful and 

 interesting cascades and crevasses. It is three 



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