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And the result is a most stupendous 

 thing, namely, the looming of the moun- 

 tains. 



At this point it is a relief to quote from 

 John C. Van Dyke. In his recent book 

 on The Mountain (Scribners, April, 

 1916), he says: "Moreover, there is still 

 another quality that comes with the 

 mighty uplift the quality of looming in 

 the peak. At times the whole peak seems 

 to ride the blue sky, and comes looming 

 forward and upward above us." 



THE JUNGFRATJ 



For years I had, and in large measure, 

 valued the uplift of the mountains, but 

 its profound meaning, the astounding 

 spiritual poetry of it all, was not revealed 

 to me until, one fortunate day, I saw the 

 Jung f ran, after a long rain, emerge. 



John Ruskin, in Modern Painters, says, 

 "It would be very grand if one ever saw 

 a great mountain peak breaking through 

 the domed shoulders of a true cumulus; 



