. Sierra Club bulletin . n tree, wherethe water was cool and clear. A creniere was quicklyconstructed of a great fallen pine branch, its naked tipsprawling over the ground like some antediluvian mon-ster, and serving as ballast, while the butt-end projectedover the fire. This was supported by two rough crotchesinterlocked, the charm of such a combination being thatit is erected without artificial fashioning, from materialat hand, and without the aid of any extraneous adjunctssuch as nails or thongs. The two following days were spent in exploring theforks of the river. The first, we ascended th
. Sierra Club bulletin . n tree, wherethe water was cool and clear. A creniere was quicklyconstructed of a great fallen pine branch, its naked tipsprawling over the ground like some antediluvian mon-ster, and serving as ballast, while the butt-end projectedover the fire. This was supported by two rough crotchesinterlocked, the charm of such a combination being thatit is erected without artificial fashioning, from materialat hand, and without the aid of any extraneous adjunctssuch as nails or thongs. The two following days were spent in exploring theforks of the river. The first, we ascended the right-hand branch, which flows through what is properly calledDeadmans Canon, wrongly named on the sheet of theGeological Survey—a pleasant enough tramp up andback of fifteen miles. To our left as we startedwas a lateral moraine, one of the largest to be seen inthe Sierra, its top a thousand feet or more above theriver and two or three miles long. Several strong SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN, VOL. VI. PLATES XXXII AND LOOKING DOWN INTO THE ROARING RIVER VALLEY FROMNEAR THE SHEEP-HERDERS* CAMP.
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