. The national parks portfolio. s of theobserver. It is ice plated 14,000 feet below its glistening enormous mass is the climax of the great Alaskan Range, whichextends, roughly, east and west across southeast central Alaska. The reservation contains 2,200 square miles. Its northern slopes, whichoverlook the Tanana watershed with its gold-mining industry, are broad valleysinhabited by enormous herds of caribou. Its southern plateau is a winterwilderness through which glaciers of great length and enormous bulk flow intothe valleys of the south. In this national park, which the railr
. The national parks portfolio. s of theobserver. It is ice plated 14,000 feet below its glistening enormous mass is the climax of the great Alaskan Range, whichextends, roughly, east and west across southeast central Alaska. The reservation contains 2,200 square miles. Its northern slopes, whichoverlook the Tanana watershed with its gold-mining industry, are broad valleysinhabited by enormous herds of caribou. Its southern plateau is a winterwilderness through which glaciers of great length and enormous bulk flow intothe valleys of the south. In this national park, which the railroad now buildingby Government into the Alaskan interior will open presently to the public,America possesses Alpine scenery upon a titanic scale. In fact, it matches theHimalayas; as a spectacle Mount McKinley even excels their loftiest peaks,for the altitude of the valleys from which the Himalayas are viewed exceedsby many thousand feet that of the plains from which the awed visitor looksup to McKinleys towering height. Us<0. (235)
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