In the Sierra 



merable peaks, ridges, domes, meadows, lakes, 

 and woods; the forests extending in long 

 curving lines and broad fields wherever the 

 glaciers have left soil for them to grow on, 

 while the sides of the highest mountains 

 show a straggling dwarf growth clinging to 



GLACIER MEADOW STREWN WITH MORAINE BOULDERS, 

 10,000 FEET ABOVE THE SEA (NEAR MT. DANA) 



rifts in the rocks apparently independent of 

 soil. The dark heath-like growth on the 

 Cathedral roof I found to be dwarf snow- 

 pressed albicaulis pine, about three or four 

 feet high, but very old looking. Many of 



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