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Show BY PATH AND TEAIL. 23 of which in season streams flow, where formidable prom ontories reach out, and peaks and cones of extinct craters tell of elemental wars. To my right, stretching away for miles, the land is one vast tumultuous mass of giant bowl ders, of stubborn cacti and volcanic rocks. Many of these erupted rocks still carry the black marks of the fire from which they escaped in times geologically near. How many thousands of years, we know not since these porphyritic hills were heaved up and wasted to a dark wine purple or these adamantine ledges burned to a terra cotta orange. Here, scattered along or cropping, out of the faces of the towering cliffs, are metamorphic rocks and conglomerates slates, shales, syenites and grit stones and here and there dust of copper, brim stone and silver blown against the granite walls and blackened as if oxidized by fire. The porphyritic hills bear ugly marks upon their sides, cicatriced wounds re ceived in the days when ' ' the deep called to the deep and the earth opened at the voice of the floodgates. " |
