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Show - AS TO THE SIERRA NEVADA. -w-v . The American Alpine club has just issued the first number of ACphia Americana, containing an illustrated il-lustrated article upon the Sierra Nevada by Prof. Joseph N. Le Conte, which calls to mind the chagrin felt by John Muir because he could not prevail upon Ralph Waldo Emerson to make a night of it among the giant sequoias under the open sky; those Sierras of which Mr. Muir has said: "Though extremely rugged, with its main features fea-tures on the grandest scale in height and depth it is nevertheless easy of access and hospitable; and its marvelous beauty, displayed hi striking and alluring allur-ing forms, woos the admiring wanderer on and on, higher and higher, charmed and enchanted. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent magni-ficent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls and the forests of silver fir and silver pine. And, how bright is the shining after summer showers and dewy nights, and after frosty nights in spring and autumn, when the morning sunbeams are pouring through the snow-laden' trees 1" In the opening of the magazine' Prof. La Conde says: "The summer climate of the high Sierras is simply perfect, cloudless days and dry nights; and, unhindered by bush, one may ride or walk in any direction with or without a trial until stopped by some gTeat river canon. . - The work may have a tendency, directly, to induce in-duce some Americans to "See America first," evipn if they must go to Europe. It is certain truth that in all the world there is n more beautiful charm of scenery than in the high Sierras, no such trees can be found anywhere else. The air is loaded with the odors of the balsam of the pines. The days are always delightful, the nights clear and delicious. It is alto-gether alto-gether the most splendid ranga of which we have any knowledge. . i |