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from the ice-sheet and cease to be eroded; the law here applicable 

 being, "to him that hath shall be given." 



Thus it appears that, no matter how the preglacial mass of the 

 range came into existence, all the separate mountains distributed 

 over its surface between latitude 36" 30' and 39°, whether the lofty 

 alps of the summit, or richly sculptured dome-clusters of the flank, 

 or the burnished bosses and mountainets projecting from the sides of 

 valleys — all owe their development to the ice-sheet of the great 

 winter and the separate glaciers into which it afterward separated. 

 In all this sublime fulfillment there was no upbuilding, but a uni- 

 versal razing and dismantling, and of this every mountain and valley 

 is the record and monument. 



TRAVEL 



7^0 travel is to do, not only to see, Ho travel best 

 is to he of the sportsmen of the road, take a 

 chance and win; to feel the glow of muscles too 

 long unused; to sleep on the ground at night and 

 find it soft; to eat, not because it is time to eat, 

 but because one s body is clamoring for food; to 

 drink where every stream and river is pure 

 and cold; to get close to the earth and see the 

 stars — this is travel, 



MARY ROBERTS RINEHART 



