. Birds of the Rockies . far as the eye can reach, avast wilderness of snowy peaks and ranges, many of themwith a rosy glow in the sunshine, tier upon tier, terraceabove terrace, here in serried ranks, there in isolated PANORAMA FROM GRAYS PEAK —NORTHWEST The picture includes the northern spur of Grai/s Peak, withthe dismantled signal station on its crest. The main ridseof the peak extends out to the left of the signal simimit is so situated as to he exposed to the sun thegreater part of the day; hence, although it is the highestpoint in the region, there is less snow upon it in su
. Birds of the Rockies . far as the eye can reach, avast wilderness of snowy peaks and ranges, many of themwith a rosy glow in the sunshine, tier upon tier, terraceabove terrace, here in serried ranks, there in isolated PANORAMA FROM GRAYS PEAK —NORTHWEST The picture includes the northern spur of Grai/s Peak, withthe dismantled signal station on its crest. The main ridseof the peak extends out to the left of the signal simimit is so situated as to he exposed to the sun thegreater part of the day; hence, although it is the highestpoint in the region, there is less snow upon it in summer thanupon many of the surrounding elevations. Looking northwestfrom the signal station, the eye falls upon a wilderness of snoiv-clad peaks and ranges, some standing in serried ranks, others inpicturesque disorder. It is truly an arctic scene, summer orwinter. Yet it is the sujnmer home of the brown-capped leu-costicte and the nhilc-tailed ptarmigan, which range in happyfreedom over the upper story of our 250 BIRDS OF THE ROCKIES grandeur, some just beyond the dividing caiions, othersfifty, sixty, a hundred miles away, Cyclopean, majestic,infinite. Far to the north, Longs Peak lifts his seamedand hoary pyramid, almost as high as the crest onwhich we are standing; in the west rise that famoustriad of peaks, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, theirfanelike towers, sketched against the sky, disputingthe palm with old Gray himself; while a hundred milesto the south Pikes Peak stands solitary and smiling inthe sun, seeming to say, I am sufficient unto myself!Between our viewpoint and the last-named mountainlies South Park, like a paradise of green immured byguardian walls of rock and snow, and far to the east,beyond the billowing ranges, white, gray, and green,stretch the limitless plains, vanishing in the hazy dis-tance. In such surroundings ones breast throbs andswells with the thought of Natures omnipotence. The summit of Grays Peak is a favorable viewpointfrom which t
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