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INDEX 



Tuolumne, 95, 258 ; Merced, 95, 



258 ; San Joaquin. 95. 

 Rivers, 37 ; Sierra, 242. 

 Riverside trees, 130. 

 Robin, 236. 

 Roek ferns, 149. 

 Rose, 23, 147, 282. 

 Rubus, 147. 



Sage-cock, 214. 



Salmon berries, 24. 



Sandhill crane, 227. 



Sanger Lumber Co., 298. 



Sarcodes, 281. 



Sawmills, in sequoia -woods, 292, 

 298, 299, 319, 351. 



Scenery, habit, 2, 3 ; best, care- 

 killing, 17 ; canon, 259, 266. 



Seed collectors, 101. 



Seeds of conifers, 120. 



Sequoia ditches, 291. 



Sequoia gigantea, 268 ; cones, 

 274; age, 275; death, 276; 

 groves in spring, 2S1 ; summer, 

 282 ; autumn, 283 ; winter, 

 283 ; studies, 285 ; seedlings, 

 297; young trees, 288, 296; 

 oldest. 297 ; size of, 294, 322 ; 

 durability of wood, 291 ; gum, 

 292 ; groves of Tosemite Park, 

 109 ; Mariposa Grove, 286, 328 ; 

 Fresno Grove, 287-292 ; Dinky 

 Grove, 293 ; forests of Kings 

 River, 295 ; Kaweah and Tule 

 river basins, 300, 314, 316 ; dis- 

 tribution of, 322, 325 ; perma- 

 nence of the species, 323 ; in- 

 fluence on streams, 324, 329. 



Sbake-makers, 298, 353. 



Sheep, wild, 194 ; hoofed locusts, 

 317, 318, 352. 



Shepherds, 33, 185, 293, 317. 



Sierra climate, cbange of, 324. 



Silex pavements, 46. 



Silver fir, alpine, 31, 68, 170; 

 magnificent, 83, 118, 170 ; 

 white, noble, grand, and 

 lovelv. 119, 170. 



Snow, 26, 247. 



Snow avalanches, 251. 



Snow plant (Sarcodes), 156, 281. 



Snowstorms, 249, 283. 



Soil, 65, 67 ; moraine, 100, 13S ; 



crystal, 140, 161 ; earthquake 



boulder, 140, 259. 

 Sparrow, the glacier, 231. 

 Spiraea, 142. 

 Spiritual world, the, 74. 

 Springs, 244, 245 ; soda, 247. 

 Spruce, Engelmann, 14, 68; Doug- 

 las, 19, 22, 68, 100, 116 ; Sitka, 



170. 

 Squirrels, 19, 52, 192, 194, 274, 



284. 

 Storms, 267. 

 Streams of the Sierra, 241, 246, 



248 ; in spring, 256 ; in summer 



and autumn, 257. 

 Sunflowers, crystal, 162. 

 Swamps, 7. 



Talus, earthquake, 140, 259. 



Tamarack, 18. 



Thoreau, his description of the 

 pistillate flowers of tbe white 

 pine, 169 ; on the destruction 

 of trees and shrubs, 356. 



Torreya, 131. 



Tourists, 21, 27, 53. 



Trapper, 57. 



Travel, modern, 1, 50, 56. 



Tree flowers, 168 ; how best to 

 see them, 165. 



Tree gardens, 167. 



Trout, 18, 48, 67, 211. 



Tumion, 131. 



Tundra, Alaska, 7. 



Vaccinium, 18, 94, 148. 



Valley, Central, of California, 5, 



137. 

 Violets, 142, 281. 

 Volcanic cones, 30, 94. 

 Volcanic rocks, 60. 

 Volcanic storms, 61. 

 Volcanoes, 30 ; mud, 51. 



Water, action of, on soilbeds, 138. 

 "Water, Owens River, 246. 

 Waterfalls, Yellowstone, 49 ; Ka- 

 weah, 300. 

 Wildness, 2 ; unchangeable, 4. 

 Willow, dwarf, 94. 

 Wind, action of, on soilbeds, 139. 

 Woodchuck, 199. 

 Woodpeckers, 233, 282. 

 Wood-rat, 201. 



