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with it, the Alps of Europe, the Andes of South America, 

 our own Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Canyon, the bound- 

 less plain of the Mississippi Valley, are all but creatures of a 

 day. He will then not only enjoy the wild picturesqueness 

 of these masterpieces of Nature's masonry, but hold in 

 special reverence their hoary record of an ancient world. 



FIG. 16. From a photograph 



Sea-coast view of the "Bishop's Mitre" (left) and " Brave Mountain " 



(right). 



Again the scene changes. " Numerous waterfalls and 

 extensive banks of snow lent welcome relief to the dark 

 cliffs, the black recesses of the great sea-chasms, and the 

 savage gorge-like inlets that opened one after another as our 

 schooner slowly forged through the 'tide' around the cape. 

 Fine as this scenery was, still greater magnificence awaited 

 us as we came face to face with the Bishop's Mitre (Fig. 16). 

 Seen from the northeast, the Mitre, estimated to be about 

 3500 feet in height, exhibits a symmetry which is most re- 

 markable in view of the fact that the existing profiles are 

 everywhere the result of weathering and wasting. The 

 two peaked summits are separated by a sharp notch about 

 500 feet in depth the uppermost part of a long ravine 



