LIMITLESS PROSPECT. 
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posure, now picking their way over masses of 
huge, irregular rocks, every few steps pausing, 
because of the rarefied air, to regain their breath, 
each foot in advance increased the extent of a 
prospect that seemed limitless. With not a film 
of haze, or a cloud shadow, over all the vast ex- 
panse, beyond the crests of myriads of mountains, 
as far as the eye could reach to the east, stretched 
the ocean-like plains. On either hand rose sis- 
ter-peaks, their snow-fields flashing back the 
morning sun, which revealed their huge rocks 
and chasms, in all their stern and naked grandeur. 
The mountain-tops had never known a morning 
more faultlessly calm and radiant, yet, as they 
proceeded, their ears were surprised by the sound 
of thunder and of rushing wind, at first indistinct, 
but increasing in power and clearness, as they 
advanced. Reaching the edge of a precipice 
overlooking the Park, they found themselves 
standing far above the clouds. These were 
gathered in the fierce commotion of a storm, 
hundreds of feet below them, eddying, rolling, 
tossing to and fro, the crests of their broken bil- 
lows white and glistening, their caverns dark and 
murky, the sharp lightning cutting all, through 
and through, with sabres of vivid fire, each stroke 
accompanied by peals of deafening thunder, inter- 
mingled with the hoarse voice of rushing winds, 
the whole a spectacle, grand and beautiful, beyond 
the power of words to describe ! 
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