108 LABRADOR 
with it, the Alps of Europe, the Andes of South America, 
our own Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Canyon, the bound- 
less plain of the Mississippi Valley, are all but creatures of a 
day. He will then not only enjoy the wild picturesqueness 
of these masterpieces of Nature’s masonry, but hold in 
special reverence their hoary record of an ancient world. 
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Fic. 16. From a photograph 
Sea-coast view of the ‘‘ Bishop’s Mitre” (left) and “ Brave Mountain” 
(right). 
Again the scene changes. “Numerous waterfalls and 
extensive banks of snow lent welcome relief to the dark 
cliffs, the black recesses of the great sea-chasms, and the 
savage gorge-like inlets that opened one after another as our 
schooner slowly forged through the ‘tide’ around the cape. 
Fine as this scenery was, still greater magnificence awaited 
us as we came face to face with the Bishop’s Mitre (Fig. 16). 
Seen from the northeast, the Mitre, estimated to be about 
3900 feet in height, exhibits a symmetry which is most re- 
markable in view of the fact that the existing profiles are 
everywhere the result of weathering and wasting. The 
two peaked summits are separated by a sharp notch about 
500 feet in depth — the uppermost part of a long ravine 
