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lanches and bowlder-beds — Ascent by the arroyo — Growth 

 of the stream — Bising banks — Waterfalls — Gorges — As- 

 cent by the ridges — The chaparral — Home of the grizzly 

 — Bidge trails — Among the live-oaks — Birds and deer — 

 Yawning canyons — Canyon streams — Snow — Water wear 

 —The pines — Barrancas and escarpments — Under the 

 pines — Bushes, ferns, and mosses — Mountain-quail — In- 

 digo jays — Warblers — The mountain air — The dwarf 

 pines — The summit — The look upward at the sky — The 

 dark-blue dome — White light — Distant views — The Pa- 

 cific — Southern California — The garden in the desert — 

 Reclaiming the valleys — Nature's fight against fertility — 

 The desert from the mountain top — The great extent of 

 desert— The fateful wilderness— All shall perish— The 

 death of worlds — The desert the beginning of the end 

 — Development through adversity — Sublimity of the 

 waste — Desolation and silence — Good-night to the 

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