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to read those from home.  To learn of the welfare of loved ones and the general life of all my home friends.  Sig G. Cappellini of Bologna Italy writes acknowledging the receipt of my Utica slate paper + invites me to meet him at Bologna 1881 at the International Congress of Geologists.  Prof. Geinitz of Dresden also acknowledges receipt of U.S. paper, but as it is written in German I cannot read it.  One of the beauties of an imperfect education.  Left papers for future reading.  After breakfast next morning packed and started down the canon.  Entered the massive sandstone at leaving camp and for several miles, the canon gradually deepened until we were in a canon within a canon.  The outer walls retreating back leaving the cut in the sandstone.  Now + then we caught a glimps of the white
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