(Wloun^dn Ba^ts 



all the remaining glaciers in the front ranges are 

 on the eastern slope. The Arapahoe, Sprague, 

 Hallett, and Andrews Glaciers and the one on 

 Long's Peak are on the eastern slope. They are 

 but the stubs or remnants of large glaciers, and 

 their presence is due in part to the deep, cool 

 cirques cut out by the former ice-flows, and in 

 part to the snows swept to them by prevailing 

 westerly winds. 



Though these lakes vary in shape and size, 

 and though each is set in a different topography, 

 many have a number of like features and are 

 surrounded with somewhat similar verdure. 

 A typical lake is elliptical and about one fifth 

 of a mile long; its altitude about ten thousand 

 feet; its waters clear and cold. A few huge rock- 

 points or boulders thrust through its surface 

 near the outlet. A part of its circling shore is of 

 clean granite whose lines proclaim the former 

 presence of the Ice King. Extending from one 

 shore is a dense, dark forest. One stretch of 

 low-lying shore is parklike and grassy, flower- 

 crowded, and dotted here and there with a 

 plume of spruce or fir. By the outlet is a fiUed-in 



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