Cninfling and Hunting in the Shoshone 



Head of a Grizzly. 



seen, seemed so vast in their proportions 

 they could scarcely believe them to be the 

 old companions of the night before. But 

 these rocky solitudes seen as we saw them 

 that morning, - - well, I can liken them 

 to nothing I know of. We were not an 

 especially emotional party ; but they did 

 seem to us that morning, as they towered 

 aloft into the limitless ether, to belong to 

 another " land that is very far off/' 



Where can a more lovely series of 

 mountain-lakes be found than those that 

 lie hidden in the great forests that stretch 

 for a distance of, say, one hundred and 



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