Glimpses of our national parks .. . top off. The National Park, which incloses Mount Rainier, is about eighteenmiles square, containing three hundred and twenty-four square is easily reached by railroad and automobile from neighboringcities. A new automobile road enables stages to bring visitors tobeautiful Paradise Valley, whose flowered slopes are bordered bythe great Nisqually, Paradise, and Stevens Glaciers. One may reachthis point in four hours from Tacoma and return the same it is a spot where the visitor may well spend weeks. The Nisqually Glacier is the best known thou
Glimpses of our national parks .. . top off. The National Park, which incloses Mount Rainier, is about eighteenmiles square, containing three hundred and twenty-four square is easily reached by railroad and automobile from neighboringcities. A new automobile road enables stages to bring visitors tobeautiful Paradise Valley, whose flowered slopes are bordered bythe great Nisqually, Paradise, and Stevens Glaciers. One may reachthis point in four hours from Tacoma and return the same it is a spot where the visitor may well spend weeks. The Nisqually Glacier is the best known though by no meansthe largest of the glaciers. It is five miles long and at ParadiseValley is half a mile wide. Glistening white and fairly smooth atits shining source on the mountains summit, its surface here is soiledwith dust and broken stone and squeezed and rent by terrible pres-sure into fantastic shapes. Innumerable crevasses or cracks manyfeet deep break across it, caused by the more rapid movement of the OUE NATIONAL PARKS. 25. Ibotogi-apli by Curtis & Millei-, Seattle The Kautz Glaciek, Mount Rainier National ParkShowing its winding course from its Cirque near the Summit glaciers middle than its edges; for glaciers, again like rivers ofwater, develop swifter currents nearer mid-stream. Professor Le Conte tells us that the movement of Nisqually Glacierin summer averages, at mid-stream, about sixteen inches a da}^ Itis far less at the margins, its speed being retarded by the frictionof the sides. It is one of the great pleasures of a visit to Mount Rainier NationalPark to wander over the fields of snow and climb out on the NisquallyGlacier and explore its crevasses and ice caves. 26 OUR NATIONAL TARKS.
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