My First Summer 



unnamed, as far as I know, on the north. 

 One of these last is much like the Cathe- 

 dral. The grass of the meadows is mostly 

 fine and silky, with exceedingly slender 

 leaves, making a close sod, above which 

 the panicles of minute purple flowers seem 

 to float in airy, misty lightness, while the 

 sod is enriched with at least three species 

 of gentian and as many or more of ortho- 

 carpus, potentilla, ivesia, solidago, pent- 

 stemon, with their gay colors, purple, 

 blue, yellow, and red, all of which I 

 may know better ere long. A central camp 

 will probably be made in this region, from 

 which I hope to make long excursions into 

 the surrounding mountains. 



On the return trip I m.et the flock about 

 three miles east of Lake Tenaya. Here we 

 camped for the night near a small lake lying 

 on top of the divide in a clump of the two- 

 leaved pine. We are now about nine thousand 

 feet above the sea. Small lakes abound in all 

 sorts of situations, on ridges, along moun- 

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