SUMMIT OF PIKE'S PEAK 



Only a small portion of the peak is shown in the vie?iK 

 The comparatively level area referred to in the text lies 

 back of the signal station on the crest. At a garbage heap 

 near the building a Jlock of leucostictes were seen, and the writer 

 was told that they came there regularly to feed. From this 

 sublime height the American pipits rise on resilient nings hun- 

 dreds of feet into the air until they disappear in the cerulean 

 depths of the sky, singing all the while at " heaven's gate." 



