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broken and angular. Altogether, the Rocky 

 Mountain area in Colorado presents a delightful 

 diversity of parks, peaks, forests, lakes, streams, 

 canons, slopes, crags, and glades. 



On all of the higher summits are records of 

 the ice age. In many places glaciated rocks still 

 retain the polish given them by the Ice King. 

 Such rocks, as well as gigantic moraines in an 

 excellent state of preservation, extend from alti- 

 tudes of twelve or thirteen thousand feet down to 

 eight thousand, and in places as low as seven 

 thousand feet. Some of the moraines are but 

 enormous embankments a few hundred feet high 

 and a mile or so in length. Many of these are 

 so raw, bold, and bare, they look as if they had 

 been completed or uncovered within the last 

 year. Most of these moraines, however, espe- 

 cially those below timber-line, are well forested. 

 No one knows just how old they are, but, geo- 

 logically speaking, they are new, and in all 

 probability v/ere made during the last great ice 

 epoch, or since that time. Among the impressive 

 records of the ages that are carried by these 

 mountains, those made by the Ice King probably 



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