THE ItED GATE. 283 



We may in imagination look back of an immense geological period to an 

 epoch when the platform of the Aquarius reached far beyond its present 

 boundaries and included the whole mass of Thousand Lake Mountain and 

 the whole country as far as the eye can reach to the eastern and southern 

 horizons. The cutting of the passage through the Red Gate is but an insig- 

 nificant factor in the total process, and falls far short of what we know has 

 been accomplished in other portions of the wonderful country of which it is 

 the portal. 



