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CHAPTER XX. 
ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT 
i ie the vast ranges of wild and desolate heights, 
alternating with deep valleys and tremen- 
dcus gorges, well named the Rocky Mountains, 
over and through which the adventurous trap- 
per makes his way in pursuit of the rich fur of 
the beaver. or the hide of the bison, there are 
scenes which the soul must be dull indeed not 
to admire. In these majestic solitudes all is on 
a scale to awaken the sublimest emotions and 
fill the heart with a consciousness of the infinite 
Being ‘“‘ whose temple is all space, whose altar 
earth, sea, skies.” 
Nothing, indeed, can compare with the sensa- 
tions induced by a view from some lofty peak 
of these great mountains, for there the imagina- 
tion may wancer unfettered, may go back with- 
out a check through ages of time to the period 
when an Almighty power upheaved the gigantic 
masses which lie on all sides far beneath and 
around the beholder, and find no spot upon 
