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that this picturesque and useful race will be al- 

 lowed to extend its domain. 



The park has also a glacier, a small but .gen- 

 uine chip of the old block, the Ice King. The 

 glacier is well worth visiting, especially late in 

 summer, when the winter mantle is gone from its 

 crevasses, leaving revealed its blue-green ice and 

 its many grottoes. It is every inch a glacier. There 

 are other small glaciers above the Park, but these 

 glacial remnants, though interesting, are not as im- 

 posing as the glacial records, the old works which 

 were deposited by the Ice King. The many kinds 

 of moraines here display his former occupation 

 and activities. There are glaciated walls, polished 

 surfaces, eroded basins, and numerous lateral 

 moraines. One of the moraines is probably the 

 largest and certainly one of the most interesting 

 in the Rockies. It occupies about ten square miles 

 on the eastern slope of the mountain. Above tim- 

 ber-line this and other moraines seem surprisingly 

 fresh and new, as though they had been formed 

 only a few years, but below tree-line they are for- 

 ested, and the accumulation of humus upon them 

 shows that they have long been bearers of trees. 



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