Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . jilain, one hundred and twenty mileslong, conducts, by a gradual and regularascent, to the summit, about seven thou-sand feet above the sea; and the traveler,without being reminded of any ch
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . jilain, one hundred and twenty mileslong, conducts, by a gradual and regularascent, to the summit, about seven thou-sand feet above the sea; and the traveler,without being reminded of any change,by toilsome ascents, suddenly iinds him-self on the waters which flow to the Faciticocean. On this short mouutain-chain arethe head-waters of four great rivers of thewestern continent, namely, the Colorado,Columbia, Missouri, and Platte I ILAXTIXG AMERICAN OX THEBOCKY MOUNTAINS, IIY IltEMOXT. A scene of characteris-tic adventure was that ofreaching the summit ofI liese mountains. Puttingliands and feet in the crev-lies between the blocks,Fremont succeeded in get- ting over it, and, on attaining the top,found his companions in a small valleybelow. Descending to them, they con-tinued climbing, and in a short timereached the crest. He sprang upon thesummit, and unfurled the national flag totvave in the breeze where never flag wavedbefore. During the mornings ascent, no signof animal life was met with, except a smallsparrow-like bird. A stillness the mostprofound and a solitude the most terribleforced themselves constantly- on the mindas the great features of the place. Here,on the summit, where the stillness was ab-solute, unbroken by any sound, and thesolitude complete, the explorers thoughtthemselves beyond the region of animatedlife; but, while they were sitting on therock, a solitary humble-bee came winginghis
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