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yj^^TEND a straight line fifty-five miles north- 

 ^•^ west from Denver and another line sixty 

 miles southwest from Cheyenne and these lines 

 meet in approximately the centre of the Rocky 

 Mountain National Park. This centre is in 

 the mountain-heights a few miles northwest of 

 Long's Peak, in what Dr. F. V. Hayden, the 

 famous geologist, calls the most rugged section 

 of the Continental Divide of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. 



This Park is a mountain realm lying almost 

 entirely above the altitude of nine thousand feet. 

 Through it from north to south extends the 

 Snowy Range, — the Continental Divide, — 

 and in it this and the Mummy Range form a 

 vast mountain Y. Specimen Mountain is the 

 north end of the west arm of this Y, while Mum- 

 my Mountain is at the tip of the east arm. Mt. 



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