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Don Cathedra was most fortu- 

 nate in visiting the Great Basin on 

 this seventeenth day of September 

 — one day out of a hundred. It 

 was gloriously bright, and yet there 

 was moisture enough to give the 

 most charming atmospheric effects. 

 The Don made many studies, and 

 worked diligently all day with pen- 

 cil and brush, catching the effects 

 of golden and rose-tinted rocks at 

 sunrise, the yellow foliage creep- 

 ing up the dark purple ledges on 

 the shaded side of the ravine, the 

 dim line in the atmosphere between the light and the shadow 

 falling diagonally down the eastern cliff, the wild and ragged slides 

 and stream-beds on the illuminated west slope, the picturesque fore- 

 ground of autumn-tinted hard-woods and dark evergreens reflected 

 in the lake — that wonderful association of grandeur in mass, with 

 exquisite beauty in detail, such as one can rarely see among all our 



A VIEW IN THE GREAT BASIN. 



