34- ON THE BIRDS' HIGHWAY 



Adams beyond, appeared from out the 

 white, fleecy clouds that enveloped them. 

 Mount Madison is 5759 feetabove the level 

 of the sea and Mount Adams 5700 feet. 

 The sun went down behind the foothills at 

 about half after three o'clock, tinging the 

 scurrying clouds with golden light; and the 

 rolling outline of the foothills stood sharply 

 out against the fading light of a mid-winter 

 sky. Great cakes of ice covered the banks 

 of the river, giving a touch of white to 

 the gray lowlands and in 

 seeming contrast to the then 

 black rolling hills. 



The sky was covered on 

 the morning of the twenty- 

 eighth with dark clouds, 

 rifts only now and then 

 visible ; Mount Moriah, the 

 highest mountain not under 

 cloud, was in full view be- 

 fore us. We had planned 

 a trip, the night before, to 

 visit a lumber camp some six miles back in 

 the woods ; we left the farm at about half 

 after eight o'clock bound thither. Our 

 guide led us to the north-westward toward 

 Bald Cap Mountain, at whose base the 



