. Review of reviews and world's work . ave an adequate notion of what is involvedin the bill introduced in the last Congress toextend the area of Sequoia National Park, tobe known as Roosevelt National Park. It issomehow easier for the American who hasnever view^ed the Alps to imagine whatSwitzerland is like than to visualize a tractof land larger than the State of Rhode Island,situated in central California just west of thesummit ridge of the Sierras, embracing with-in its limits the highest mountain in the United States, with river canyons far sur-passing in grandeur any of Europes scenicfea
. Review of reviews and world's work . ave an adequate notion of what is involvedin the bill introduced in the last Congress toextend the area of Sequoia National Park, tobe known as Roosevelt National Park. It issomehow easier for the American who hasnever view^ed the Alps to imagine whatSwitzerland is like than to visualize a tractof land larger than the State of Rhode Island,situated in central California just west of thesummit ridge of the Sierras, embracing with-in its limits the highest mountain in the United States, with river canyons far sur-passing in grandeur any of Europes scenicfeatures, and all this thrown open by theGovernment as a national playground. Mount Whitney, Mount Langley, MountTyndall, and Mount Williamson, ranging inheight from 14,000 to 14,500 feet, andMount Brewer, Thunder Mountain, and theKawaah Peaks, all over 13,500 feet in ele-vation, are the outstanding features of thepark landscape, but there are hundreds ofother elevations second only to these. TheKings and Kern River canyons, equal if not. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND JOHN MUIR. WITH A GROUP OF FRIENDS, STANDING IN FRONT OF ONE OF THE FAMOUS BIG TREES IN THE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 394 A ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK 395
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