The mountains . Then the Tenderfootdiscovered in a niche some strange, hardy alpine flow-ers. So we established a connection, through thesewondrous brave children of the great mother, withthe world of living things. After we had eaten, which was the very first thingwe did, we walked to the edge of the main crest andlooked over. That edge went straight down. I donot know how far, except that even in contemplationwe entirely lost our breaths, before we had fallen halfway to the bottom. Then intervened a ledge, and inthe ledge was a round glacier lake of the very deep-est and richest ultramarine
The mountains . Then the Tenderfootdiscovered in a niche some strange, hardy alpine flow-ers. So we established a connection, through thesewondrous brave children of the great mother, withthe world of living things. After we had eaten, which was the very first thingwe did, we walked to the edge of the main crest andlooked over. That edge went straight down. I donot know how far, except that even in contemplationwe entirely lost our breaths, before we had fallen halfway to the bottom. Then intervened a ledge, and inthe ledge was a round glacier lake of the very deep-est and richest ultramarine you can find among yourpaint-tubes, and on the lake floated cakes of daz-zling white ice. That was enough for the moment. Next we leaped at one bound direct down to somebrown hazy liquid shot with the tenderest filamentsof white. After analysis we discovered the hazybrown liquid to be the earth of the plains, and thefilaments of white to be roads. Thus instructed wemade out specks which were towns. That was We walked to the edge of the main crest and looked over THE MAIN CREST The rest was too insignificant to classify without theaid of a microscope. And afterwards, across those plains, oh, many,many leagues, were the Inyo and Panamit moun-tains, and beyond them Nevada and Arizona, andblue mountains, and bluer, and still bluer rising, ris-ing, rising higher and higher until at the level of theeye they blended with the heavens and were lostsomewhere away out beyond the edge of the world. We said nothing, but looked for a long we turned inland to the wonderful great titansof mountains clear-cut in the crystalline air. Neverwas such air. Crystalline is the only word which willdescribe it, for almost it seemed that it would ringclearly when struck, so sparkling and delicate andfragile was it. The crags and fissures across theway — two miles across the way — were revealedthrough it as through some medium whose transpar-ence was absolute. They challenged the eye,
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