The mountains of California . a particularly tedious breadth of chapar-ral, I found myself free and erect in a beautifulpark-like grove of Mountain Live Oak, where theground was planted with aspidiums and brier-roses,while the glossy foliage made a close canopy over-head, leaving the gray dividing trunks bare to showthe beauty of their interlacing arches. The bot-tom of the canon was dry where I first reached it,but a bunch of scarlet mimulus indicated water atno great distance, and I soon discovered about abucketful in a hollow of the rock. This, however,was full of dead bees, wasps, beetles,
The mountains of California . a particularly tedious breadth of chapar-ral, I found myself free and erect in a beautifulpark-like grove of Mountain Live Oak, where theground was planted with aspidiums and brier-roses,while the glossy foliage made a close canopy over-head, leaving the gray dividing trunks bare to showthe beauty of their interlacing arches. The bot-tom of the canon was dry where I first reached it,but a bunch of scarlet mimulus indicated water atno great distance, and I soon discovered about abucketful in a hollow of the rock. This, however,was full of dead bees, wasps, beetles, and leaves,well steeped and simmered, and would, therefore, re-quire boiling and filtering through fresh charcoalbefore it could be made available. Tracing the drychannel about a mile farther down to its junctionwith a larger tributary canon, I at length discov-ered a lot of boulder pools, clear as crystal, brim-ming full, and linked together by glistening stream-lets just strong enough to sing audibly. Flowers in y^ /%) \\. »* ,»I, i •? i^ III //
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