STEEP TRAILS 



which have been eroded from the solid mass of 

 the mountain by a group of small residual 

 glaciers that Ungered in their shadows long 

 after the larger ice rivers had vanished. On 

 its western decUvities are found a group of 

 well-characterized moraines, canons, and roches 

 moutonnees, all of which are unmistakably 

 fresh and telling. The moraines in particular 

 could hardly fail to attract the eye of any 

 observer. Some of the short laterals of the 

 glaciers that drew their fountain snows from 

 the jagged recesses of the summit are from 

 one to two hundred feet in height, and scarce 

 at all wasted as yet, notwithstanding the 

 countless storms that have fallen upon them, 

 while cool rills flow between them, watering 

 charming gardens of arctic plants — saxi- 

 frages, larkspurs, dwarf birch, ribes, and par- 

 nassia, etc. — beautiful memories of the Ice 

 Age, representing a once greatly extended 

 flora. 



In the course of explorations made to the 

 eastward of here, between the 38th and 40th 

 parallels, I observed glacial phenomena equally 

 fresh and demonstrative on all the higher 

 mountains of the White Pine, Golden Gate, 

 and Snake ranges, varying from those already 

 described only as determined by differences of 

 elevation, relations to the snow-bearing winds, 



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