. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . ge became the Hida-Etchumeridional range, with Yarigatake (Spear Peak),Hodakayama, and Orengeyama—all over 10,000feet—as its culminating points. These twomassifs, so far exceeding in height and ruggedgrandeur any other mountains in Japan, havecome to be known collectively as the JapaneseAlps. Though without glaciers and on a some-what smaller scale, Weston puts them above theAlps of Switzerland in the picturesqueness oftheir valleys and in the magnificence of the darkand silent forests that clothe their massiveflanks. On eithe
. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . ge became the Hida-Etchumeridional range, with Yarigatake (Spear Peak),Hodakayama, and Orengeyama—all over 10,000feet—as its culminating points. These twomassifs, so far exceeding in height and ruggedgrandeur any other mountains in Japan, havecome to be known collectively as the JapaneseAlps. Though without glaciers and on a some-what smaller scale, Weston puts them above theAlps of Switzerland in the picturesqueness oftheir valleys and in the magnificence of the darkand silent forests that clothe their massiveflanks. On either side of this comparatively recentfissure the mightiest volcanoes in Japan haverisen. Those occupying isolated positions—suchas Fujiyama and the eight-peaked Yatsugatake—were probably formed after the opening ofthe fissure. Those associated with the Hidagranitic range are more ancient. Lateralpressure threw these ridges into transverse 102 The Japanese Highlands folds, and in the resulting synclinal hollows thevolcanoes built themselves up. This juxtapo-. Gwt<rv<.\5 iOOO If- a^ 6000^1. A, Ht«l a(C(rtc«A> ic)R.«in^; B^ Ak XI sTiiH, firkko (Vole:), e, KiwJ^ysn(CJraA«te)R tujL sition, on a commanding scale, of mountains ofupheaval and mountains of accumulation gives lO- Japans Inheritance rise to a type of scenery of which Nikko withall its diversity gives no more than a hint. The intersection of the Great Transverse Faultwith the main watershed of Hondo is markedby the Shiojiri Pass, with the relatively lowelevation of 3,160 feet. From this point theserrated ridges of Hida, less than 30 milesdistant, show finely against the western sky overthe wooded crest of an intervening range of7,000 to 8,000 feet. This, therefore, has firstto be crossed. A basha takes the traveller toits foot, but thenceforward neither vehicle norpack-horse avails. From bank to bank of abrawling torrent the rough track winds, ascend-ing between magnificently timbered slopes ofincreasing
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