The Columbia River . he creekdescends, stupendous, glacier-crowned, and pinnacledpeaks penetrate the blue-black sky at an elevation ofnearly ten thousand feet. At the south side of thepark lies Glacier Lake, a mile long and half as wide,margined with vivid grass, brilliant flowers, and treesof the Alpine type, clear as crystal, unless darkened bysome sudden scud from the heights. At the southernend of the lake is a bold bluff of five hundred feet,over which fall the waters of Railroad Creek, a whiteband across the darkness of the bluff. Above maybe seen the source of this stream. It issues fro
The Columbia River . he creekdescends, stupendous, glacier-crowned, and pinnacledpeaks penetrate the blue-black sky at an elevation ofnearly ten thousand feet. At the south side of thepark lies Glacier Lake, a mile long and half as wide,margined with vivid grass, brilliant flowers, and treesof the Alpine type, clear as crystal, unless darkened bysome sudden scud from the heights. At the southernend of the lake is a bold bluff of five hundred feet,over which fall the waters of Railroad Creek, a whiteband across the darkness of the bluff. Above maybe seen the source of this stream. It issues from asmaller lake, which lies in the very end of a vastglacier, a mass of ice two miles wide and about fourmiles long. Passing west of Glacier Lake through the en-chanted North Star Park, a veritable land of Beulah(at least when the sun is shining), we climb a thou-sand or twelve hundred feet higher, and find ourselvesat one of those thrilling points in the mountains, a* divide. We are on the crest of the Cascade Moun-. o ^ c/: 9 rt6 ^ co . ^^ -^ ^2 1 o o The Lakes from Arrow Lakes to Chelan 321 tains. To the east the water flows to Lake Chelan,thence to the Columbia, and thence to the Pacific bya journey of six hundred miles. To the west thewater descends through the Sauk and the Skagit toPuget Sound, only a hundred and fifty miles pass is almost always wrapped in clouds, andit is fittingly known as Cloudy Pass. The masses ofwarm vapour rising from the Pacific are hurled againstthe icy crowns of Glacier Peak, JNIt. Nixon, ]Mt. LeConte, North Star Peak, Bonanza Peak, and the restof the wintry brotherhood, most not yet even named,and make of them a genuine patriam nimhoruvif inVirgils phrase. This is the breeding place of tempests. We hadjust reached the pass on one occasion, with a smilingsky below, and were just getting our cameras readyto catch the westward maze of peaks, when almostinstantly there began to wheel and whirl above usgreat cloud-masses, seemingly from no
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