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The top of the peak, an area of between three 

 and four acres and comparatively level, was in an 

 easy eddy, almost a calm when compared with 

 the wind's activities below and near by. Ap- 

 parently the wind-current collided so forcefully 

 with the western wall of the peak that it was 

 thrown far above the summit before recovering 

 to continue its way eastward; but against the 

 resisting spurs and pinnacles a little below 

 summit-level the wind roared, boomed, and 

 crashed in its determined, passionate onsweep. 



The better to hear this grand uproar, I ad- 

 vanced to the western edge of the summit. Here 

 my hat was torn off, but not quite grasped, by 

 the upshooting blast. It fell into the swirl above 

 the summit and in large circles floated upward 

 at slow speed, rising directly above the top of 

 the peak. It rose and circled so slowly that I 

 threw several stones at it, trying to knock it 

 down before it rose out of range. The diameter 

 of the circle through which it floated was about 

 one hundred and fifty feet; when it had risen 

 five, or perhaps six, hundred feet above the 

 summit it suddenly tumbled over and over as 



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