In the Sierra 



of volcanic cones extends southward from 

 the lake, rising abruptly out of the desert 

 like a chain of mountains. The largest of 

 the cones are about twenty-five hundred feet 

 high above the lake level, have well-formed 

 craters, and all of them are evidently compara- 





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HIGHEST MONO VOLCANIC CONES (NEAR VIEW) 



tively recent additions to the landscape. At a 

 distance of a few miles they look like heaps 

 of loose ashes that have never been blest by 

 either rain or snow, but, for a' that and a' 

 that, yellow pines are climbing their gray 

 slopes, trying to clothe them and give 

 beauty for ashes. A country of wonderful 



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