What to see in America . A Forest Fire 534 What to See in America. Photo by Gifford aiul PrentissAn Eight-foot Spruce States. From thesnow-covered sum-mit twenty-eightrivers of ice pourslowly down thegashed slopes, reach-ing into the rich gar-dens of wild flowersand splendid ever-green forests like thetentacles of a hugeoctopus. Many ofthe individual icestreams are between four and six miles long and rival inmagnitude and charm the glaciers of the Alps. The occa-sional thunder of avalanches may be heard. The lowerportion of the glaciers is apt to be very dirty, but the iceand snow grow cleaner
What to see in America . A Forest Fire 534 What to See in America. Photo by Gifford aiul PrentissAn Eight-foot Spruce States. From thesnow-covered sum-mit twenty-eightrivers of ice pourslowly down thegashed slopes, reach-ing into the rich gar-dens of wild flowersand splendid ever-green forests like thetentacles of a hugeoctopus. Many ofthe individual icestreams are between four and six miles long and rival inmagnitude and charm the glaciers of the Alps. The occa-sional thunder of avalanches may be heard. The lowerportion of the glaciers is apt to be very dirty, but the iceand snow grow cleaner as you ascend, until, at the sourceof the glaciers, they could hardly be purer. Several speciesof insects are regular inhabitants of the glaciers. Thereare the springtails, for instance, which are so minute that in spite of their darkcolor they escapethe attention of mostpersons. But if youlook closely they canbe seen hoppingabout like miniaturefleas, or wrigglinginto the cavities ofthe snow. Theyseem to be incom- Photo by Gifford and Prentiss moded VCry little
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