Biographical Notice 



California was made in the Genesee 

 Valley, Plumas County. * 



" The next year, King and I passed 

 around the eastern base of Shasta. 

 The reconnaissance of this mountain 

 had been made by the California 

 Survey in 1862, after a winter noted 

 for the heaviest rains and snows since 

 the acquisition of California. And 

 we had then announced that, while 

 there was much snow on the moun- 

 tain, there were no glaciers. King 

 had never seen glaciers ; I had seen 

 them only in Switzerland. 



" We forded one day at the base 

 of Shasta a small stream, turbid with 

 ash-colored mud, which came from a 

 snow-field far above. I said that, if 

 we were in Switzerland, I should con- 

 sider it a typical, glacier-fed stream. 



* See American Journal of Science, 2d 

 series, vol. xli., p. 353 ; also Geological Sur- 

 vey of California, " Geology," vol. i., pp. 308, 

 462. 



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