In the Sierra 



journeys, hence the name. It is about half 

 a mile long, draining into the Merced, 

 ;dgy in the middle, with a margin bright 

 ith lilies, columbines, larkspurs, lupines, 

 :astilleia, then an outer zone of dry, gently 

 doping ground starred with a multitude of 

 small flowers, eunanus, mimulus, gilia, 

 r ith rosettes of spraguea,and tufts of several 

 species of eriogonum and the brilliant 

 Luschneria. The noble forest wall about it is 

 iade up of the two silver firs and the yellow 

 ind sugar pines, which here seem to reach 

 their highest pitch of beauty and grandeur; 

 for the elevation, six thousand feet or a 

 little more, is not too great for the sugar 

 ind yellow pines or too low for the mag- 

 lifica fir, while the concolor seems to find 

 :his elevation the best possible. About a 

 lile from the north end of the flat there is 

 grove of Sequoia gigantea, the king of all 

 :he conifers. Furthermore, the Douglas 

 spruce (PseudotsugaDouglasii^ and Libocedrus 

 ?currens, and a few two-leaved pines, occur 

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