Clarence King - Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1871)

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These Californian scoundrels are invariably lighthearted; crime cannot overshadow the exhilaration of the outdoor life; remorse and gloom are banished like clouds before this perennially sunny climate. They make amusement out of killing you.

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The western margin of this continent [North America] is built of a succession of mountain chains folded in broad corrugations, like waves of stone upon whose seaward base beat the mild, small breakers of the Pacific.

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