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mountain side, both by rounding and smoothing the 

 rocks over which they flowed and by heaping moraines 

 upon them. [See Plate 2.] 



Many of the crags and pinnacles which give divers- 

 ity to the scenery on the steep mountain slopes, like 

 the Guardian Kocks near Spray Park, Gibraltar and 

 the numerous crests near it, and other similar crags 

 in Henry's Hunting Ground, etc., are remnants spared 

 by the glaciers which once enveloped nearly the entire 

 surface of the mountain, but still in their deeper por- 

 tions flowed in most instances in well-defined chan- 

 nels. [See Plate 3.] 



THE LURE OF THE WEST. 



E. W. Harnden. 



Why does a far Easterner, an Appalachian, go vaca- 

 tioning into the far West, not once, but repeatedly? 

 Wildness and remoteness from civilization are as eas- 

 ily enjoyed in New England as in the West — in the 

 Maine woods, in New Hampshire, even in the old Bay 

 State. I have had as strenuous work bucking brush for 

 days at a time in the White Mountains, far from all 

 evidences of mankind, as I have had in the Tuolumne 

 Canyon, and there were compensations, scenic and oth- 

 erwise, of a somewhat different kind. In winter, too, 

 our White Mountains afford some true alpine aspects; 

 and certainly New England need not apologize for its 

 yachting, canoeing, snow-shoeing, hunting or automo- 

 biling. 



Thoreau once said that other nations have their 

 written epics — that America is living hers; and it 

 seems to me that the lure of the West today lies in its 

 epic, dramatic appeal, now somewhat subdued in other 



