SUMMER DAYS AT MOUNT SHASTA 



forest, and grand icy summit harmoniously 

 blending and making one sublime picture 

 evenly balanced. 



The main lines of the landscape are im- 

 mensely bold and simple, and so regular that 

 it needs all its shaggy wealth of woods and 

 chaparral and its finely tinted ice and snow 

 and brown jutting crags to keep it from looking 

 conventional. In general views of the moun- 

 tain three distinct zones may be readily de- 

 fined. The first, which may be called the 

 Chaparral Zone, extends around the base in a 

 magnificent sweep nearly a hundred miles 

 in length on its lower edge, and with a breadth 

 of about seven miles. It is a dense growth of 

 chaparral from three to six or eight feet high, 

 composed chiefly of manzanita, cherry, chin- 

 capin, and several species of ceanothus, called 

 deerbrush by the hunters, forming, when in 

 full bloom, one of the most glorious flower-beds 

 conceivable. The continuity of this flowery 

 zone is interrupted here and there, especially 

 on the south side of the mountain, by wide 

 swaths of coniferous trees, chiefly the sugar 

 and yellow pines, Douglas spruce, silver fir, 

 and incense cedar, many specimens of which 

 are two hundred feet high and five to seven 

 feet in diameter. Goldenrods, asters, gilias, 

 lilies, and lupines, with many other less con- 



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