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may observe the effects of the cata- 

 clysms of eons ago. Boulders and 

 broken stones and the debris of rocks 

 line the valley from hundreds of feet 

 above the path to hundreds of feet be- 

 low, down in the distant ravine. High 

 above one's head we see what happened 

 hundreds of years ago and may happen 

 again in the years to come, for the 

 work of making the picturesque and 

 the beautiful among these rocks still 

 continues with the changing seasons. 

 The frosts heave and crack and break, 

 and the waters now dash and wear, as 

 in the years gone by. One may see 

 in every direction the results of this 

 fierce attack of water and change of 

 temperature upon the natural fortress 

 of the rocks. Even devastation here 

 is beautiful because it is natural. One 

 cannot but admire the ruin within the 

 ravine, down which crashing boulders, 

 carried by the mountain torrents, have 

 thrown and tossed and torn many a 

 tree that it took another part of nature 

 years to build. As a result of this 

 labor of the elements, and the struggle 

 of vegetal life for existence, has come 

 a grandeur and picturesqueness not ex- 

 celled bv anv other scene in the United 



IN THE COOL, PICTURESQUE CAVES OF 

 OVERHANGING ROCKS. 



BY THE ROADSIDE NOT FAR FROM "TREE TOPS." 



