156 In Touch with Nature. 



insignificance when brought in contact with the 

 masses from the heart of the mountain. If one 

 would know how magnificent a mineral may be, 

 how it surpasses even the orchids among flowers, 

 the butterflies among insects, or birds of paradise 

 among birds, let him gather from the mouth of the 

 great copper-mine fragments of the ore as they 

 are ruthlessly dumped upon the ground. When 

 malachite, azurite, and cuprite are seen as I saw 

 them at Bisbee, then one can form some idea of 

 Nature's perfected handiwork. If in the earth's 

 unexplored regions there is awaiting man's com- 

 ing some yet more magnificent exhibition than 

 the play of sunlight upon clustered crystals, as I 

 found them here, then man should have other 

 senses whereby to appreciate it. 



Resuming my journey, I soon overtook my 

 companions, and long before noon reached the 

 summit. It was but a mass of loose, angular 

 rocks, no larger than those that covered the 

 mountain-side, nor more weather-beaten, although 

 it is at such a spot that the clouds literally burst 

 and spend their pent-up fury. This thought in 

 mind, I was surprised to find, scattered between 



