THE CONIFEROUS FORESTS 
more impressive with distance as the 
color changes from a continuity of dark 
green to shades of blue and soft, dis- 
tant purple. In form and color the 
trees blend together and seem to move 
up the dangerous slopes and difficult 
passes in mighty multitudes. 
Contributing to the same impression 
of grandeur, we have the possibility in 
these lofty regions of certain glorious 
effects in sunlight and shade. At sun- 
rise the first rays flash on the pointed 
tops of the uppermost trees, and with 
the advancing hours descend the dark 
slopes on their golden errand. Mean- 
while the western sides lie in shadow. 
At noon a soft haze spreads through 
the valleys, and in the twilight hours 
the intense depth of purple in the dis- 
tant ranges, where stratus clouds catch 
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