A MIND'S-EYE MAP OF AMERICA 



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BALANCED ROCK ON THE TRAIL TO FERN AND ODESSA EAKES : COLORADO 



Everywhere in the great West one encounters the unexpected. Many are the balanced 

 rocks weighing hundreds of tons, yet so delicately poised that it would seem a mere gust of 

 wind could unbalance them. But neither storm nor stress, through countless centuries, has 

 been able to shake them from their apparently insecure foundations. 



