after-inscription

Updated: May 28, 2025

For, notwithstanding the post-glacial agents the air, rain, snow, frost, river, avalanche, etc. have been at work upon the greater portion of the Range for tens of thousands of stormy years, each engraving its own characters more and more deeply over those of the ice, the latter are so enduring and so heavily emphasized, they still rise in sublime relief, clear and legible, through every after-inscription.

John Muir - The Yosemite