. Rules and Regulations: Glacier National Park . their loftiest convolutions, and which break precipitatelythousands of feet to lower mountain masses, which, in their turn,bear innumerable lakes of unbelievable charm, offspring of theglaciers above; these lakes, in their turn, giving birth to roaring-rivers of icy water, leaping turbulently from level to level, carvinginnumerable sculptured gorges of grandeur and indescribable beauty. 10 GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. These parallel mountain masses form a central backbone for thenational park. Their western sides slope from the summit less pre-cipitat
. Rules and Regulations: Glacier National Park . their loftiest convolutions, and which break precipitatelythousands of feet to lower mountain masses, which, in their turn,bear innumerable lakes of unbelievable charm, offspring of theglaciers above; these lakes, in their turn, giving birth to roaring-rivers of icy water, leaping turbulently from level to level, carvinginnumerable sculptured gorges of grandeur and indescribable beauty. 10 GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. These parallel mountain masses form a central backbone for thenational park. Their western sides slope from the summit less pre-cipitately. Their eastern sides break abruptly. It is on the east thattheir scenic quality becomes titanic. A ROMANCE IN ROCKS. To really comprehend the personality of Glacier, one must glanceback for a moment into the geological past when the sea rolled overwhat is now the northwest of this continent. If you were in theGlacier National Park to-day, you would see broad horizontal bandsof variously colored rocks in the mountain masses thousands of feet. Diagkam 1.—How internal pressure transformed level rock into the tumbledmasses of the Glacier National Park. The Lewis Overthrust. above your head. These are the very strata that the waters depositedin their depths centuries of centuries ago. According to one famous theory of creation, the earth has beencontracting ever since a period when it was once gas. According toChamberlains recent theory, it never was a globe of gas, but a massof rocks which continually shift and settle under the whirling motionaround its axis. Whichever theory you accept, the fact stands that,as it contracted, its sides have bulged in places like the sides of asqueezed orange. This is what must have happened where the Gla-cier National Park now is. Under urge of the terrible squeezingforces the crust lifted, emerged, and became land. Untold agespassed, and the land hardened into rock. And all the time the forceskept pressing together and upward the rocky crust
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