. To California and back;. ofa dozen lakes—unlooked-for sight in the arid lands—Bakers Butte, the Four Peaks, and the Supersti-tion Mountains near Phoenix, the last named 160miles distant. In the southwest, the BradshawMountains, 140 miles; Granite Mountain, at Pres-cott, 100 miles, and the Juniper Range, 150 horizon directly west is vague and doubtful,but is believed to lie-near the California line. In thenorthwest a distant range is seen, north of the Colo-rado River and east of the Nevada line, perhaps theSheavwits or the Hurricane Mountains. Amongthe less remote objects are the C
. To California and back;. ofa dozen lakes—unlooked-for sight in the arid lands—Bakers Butte, the Four Peaks, and the Supersti-tion Mountains near Phoenix, the last named 160miles distant. In the southwest, the BradshawMountains, 140 miles; Granite Mountain, at Pres-cott, 100 miles, and the Juniper Range, 150 horizon directly west is vague and doubtful,but is believed to lie-near the California line. In thenorthwest a distant range is seen, north of the Colo-rado River and east of the Nevada line, perhaps theSheavwits or the Hurricane Mountains. Amongthe less remote objects are the Coconino forest andbasin on the north; on the east the Little Colorado,traceable by its fringe of cottonwoods, beds of lavaflung like the shadow of a cloud or the trail of aconflagration, and Sunset and Peachblow craters,black cones of cinder capped with red scoria; on thesouth and southwest Oak Creek Canon, the Jeromesmelters, and the rugged pictorial breakdown of theVerde, and, under foot. Flagstaff; and on the west42. the peaks of Bill Williams, Sitgreaves, and Ken-dricks, neighborly near. Yet, in spite of the grandeur of such a scene, SanFrancisco Mountain itself soon gains and monopo-lizes the attention. It has slopes that bend in asingle sweeping curve to depths which the brainreels to contemplate, down which a loosened stonewill spin until the eye can no longer distinguish itscourse; and there are huge folds and precipices andabysses of which no hint was given in the is, too, a small glacier. Perhaps its most at-tractive single feature is a profound bowl-shapedcavity between Humphrey and Agassiz peaks, over-hung by strangely sculptured cliffs that have the ap-pearance of ruined castle-walls perforated with rudedoorways, windows, and loopholes. It is called TheCrater, and is almost completely boxed in by steepbut uniform slopes of volcanic sand, in descendingwhich a horse sinks to his fetlocks. On the sidetoward the north it breaks down into a canon lead-i
Size: 1923px × 1300px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., boo, bookauthorhigginscacharlesa, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890
