﻿THE 
  SCENERY 
  OF 
  NORTH 
  AMERICA 
  

  

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  Photograph 
  from 
  E. 
  

   A 
  JAGGED 
  SKYLINE 
  NEAR 
  FISH 
  CREEK, 
  ARIZONA 
  

  

  called 
  French 
  Broad, 
  in 
  North 
  Carolina 
  

   and 
  East 
  Tennessee, 
  they 
  break 
  into 
  a 
  

   series 
  of 
  picturesque 
  rapids. 
  

  

  MOUNTAIN 
  MASSES 
  OE 
  NEW 
  ENGLAND 
  

   DIEEER 
  FROM 
  THE 
  ALLEGHENIES 
  

  

  The 
  Appalachian 
  mountain 
  masses 
  of 
  

   New 
  York 
  and 
  the 
  New 
  England 
  States 
  

   are 
  quite 
  unlike 
  the 
  Alleghenies 
  in 
  their 
  

   scenic 
  character. 
  There 
  is 
  hardly 
  any 
  

   limestone. 
  The 
  rocks 
  are 
  mostly 
  gneiss 
  

   or 
  granite 
  or 
  slates 
  and 
  mica 
  schists, 
  very 
  

   old 
  and 
  very 
  hard. 
  

  

  The 
  aspect 
  of 
  the 
  heights 
  is 
  rougher 
  

   and 
  sterner 
  and 
  the 
  timber-line 
  lower, 
  so 
  

   that 
  the 
  ground 
  above 
  4,000 
  feet 
  is 
  usually 
  

   open 
  and 
  bare, 
  while 
  above 
  5,000 
  feet 
  it 
  is 
  

   often 
  covered 
  by 
  loose 
  rocks, 
  decompos- 
  

   ing 
  under 
  the 
  storms 
  of 
  spring 
  and 
  fall. 
  

   Yet 
  the 
  hardness 
  of 
  the 
  rocks 
  gives 
  few 
  

   striking 
  forms 
  and 
  the 
  slopes 
  are 
  seldom 
  

   precipitous, 
  for 
  this 
  whole 
  region 
  has 
  been 
  

   worn 
  down 
  by 
  the 
  huge 
  glaciers 
  which 
  

   formerly 
  covered 
  it, 
  rounding 
  off 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   tuberances 
  and 
  carving 
  out 
  the 
  valleys. 
  

  

  Mount 
  Washington, 
  the 
  highest 
  point, 
  

   and 
  its 
  fellow-summits 
  of 
  the 
  so-called 
  

   "Presidential 
  Range" 
  in 
  New 
  Hampshire 
  

   are 
  huge 
  masses, 
  breaking 
  down 
  steeply 
  

   here 
  and 
  there 
  into 
  glens 
  and 
  into 
  those 
  

   deep 
  semicircular 
  hollows 
  which 
  the 
  Scot- 
  

   tish 
  Highlanders 
  call 
  "corries," 
  but 
  rarely 
  

   showing 
  either 
  a 
  prominent 
  peak 
  or 
  an 
  

   imposing 
  precipice. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  only 
  in 
  such 
  precipices 
  as 
  these 
  are 
  

   that 
  the 
  rock-climber 
  finds 
  his 
  chance, 
  for 
  

   there 
  are 
  no 
  spiry 
  pinnacles 
  or 
  narrow 
  

   aretes 
  to 
  test 
  his 
  powers 
  of 
  clinging 
  to 
  a 
  

   smooth 
  and 
  narrowing 
  pillar 
  of 
  granite 
  or 
  

   of 
  executing 
  a 
  sort 
  of 
  tight-rope 
  "stunt" 
  

   by 
  creeping 
  along 
  a 
  knife 
  edge 
  of 
  rock. 
  

   Neither 
  are 
  there 
  deep 
  and 
  narrow 
  gorges 
  

   like 
  the 
  canyons 
  of 
  Colorado 
  and 
  Utah. 
  

  

  A 
  QUIET 
  BEAUTY 
  IN 
  THE 
  VALLEYS 
  OF 
  

   NEW 
  ENGLAND 
  

  

  But 
  the 
  valleys 
  have 
  a 
  quiet 
  beauty 
  into 
  

   which 
  one 
  joyfully 
  descends 
  from 
  the 
  

   rugged 
  stone-strewn 
  wastes 
  above. 
  It 
  

   would 
  be 
  hard 
  to 
  find 
  anywhere 
  a 
  lovelier 
  

  

  