12 IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 



light, which " sets them far off in a world of 

 their own," as tender and unreal as mountains 

 in a dream. 



He might do all these things, but he is far 

 more likely to become excited, and finally be- 

 witched by guide-books, and photographs, and 

 talk all about him of this or that canon, this 

 or that pass, the Garden of the Gods, Manitou, 

 the Seven Sisters' Falls, the grave of " H. H. ; " 

 and unless a fool or a philosopher, before he 

 knows it to be in the full swing of sight-seeing, 

 and becoming learned in the ways of burros, 

 the " Ship of the Rockies," so indispensable, 

 and so common that even the babies take to 

 them. 



This traveler will climb peaks, and drive over 

 nerve-shaking roads, a steep wall on one side 

 and a frightful precipice on the other ; he will 

 toil up hundreds of steps, and go quaking down 

 into mines ; he will look, and admire, and trem- 

 ble, till sentiment is worn to threads, purse de- 

 pleted, and body and mind alike a wreck. For 

 this sort of a traveler there is no rest in Col- 

 orado ; there always remains another mountain 

 to thrill him, another canon to rhapsodize over ; 

 to one who is greedy of " sights," the tameness 

 of Harlem, or the mud flats of Canarsie, will 

 afford more rest. 



For myself I can always bear to be near 



