The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . ern snow-peaks. While larger glaciers arefound on other mountains, none are more typical. The glaciers of Hoodespecially repay study because of their wonderful variety of ice-falls, terraces,seracs, towers, castles, pinnacles and crevasses. Winter has fashioned a colossal architecture of wild forms. T Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountains brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain,—Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! The vis
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . ern snow-peaks. While larger glaciers arefound on other mountains, none are more typical. The glaciers of Hoodespecially repay study because of their wonderful variety of ice-falls, terraces,seracs, towers, castles, pinnacles and crevasses. Winter has fashioned a colossal architecture of wild forms. T Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountains brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain,—Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! The visitor who begins his acquaintancewith Mount Hood on the north side has, fromCloud Cap Inn, four interesting glaciers withina radius of a few miles. Immediately before theInn, Eliot glacier displays its entire length oftwo miles, its snout being only a few rods of this, Coe and Ladd glaciers divide thenorth face with the Eliot. All three havetheir source in neighboring reservoirs near theCrag on which above view was taken, summit, which have bceu greatly reduced. THE MOUNTAINS 79
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