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Title: The Catskill Mountains ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ulster and Delaware railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ows of buried centuries have chased eachother in cosmic glee. These yawning canyons, dark, deep andcool, where the shimmering trout streams babble among thegnarled roots and mossy boulders, to the echoing refrain of thelichen-clad walls of precipitous rock. Listen to the mellowcadence of Natures breath fresh from the verdant throat of themountain. There is naught to disturb the peaceful harmony ofthis Arcadian realm. See up yonder, at the head of the gorgein which you stand, that slender scarf of sparkling water,wearied at last with its winding career for many a mountainmile, or its dreamy life among the stones and roots of quietpools, now leaping madly, beautifully over the jutting rock,•down, down the precipice hundreds of feet, breaking into asheeny shower of fleecy foam, sending up a crystal spray,which bedews the surrounding foliage and paints the rainbowacross the slanting sunbeams. Or, climb to the breezy crestthat pierces the clouds and bathe in the filmy vapor that tlits up
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THE CATSKIl.L MOUNTAINS. 37 the mountain side and scuds past your face on the wings of thewind. Wrapped now in mist as in mid-ocean, anon the veil ishfted, the sun breaks through, and you stand entranced at themarvelous beauty of the checkered valley which slumbersbeneath your feet. Or. at davbreak as the sun peers over therim of the eastern hills and irradiates the sleeping landscapewith amber and gold, painting in gorgeous hues the rolling,tumbling masses of cloud far down over the quiet valley. Andanon as the vapor lifts and scatters before the rays of theadvancing sun, the scene becomes indescribably beautiful.Watch again as the angry little mid-day showers gather, breakand finish their noisy career, far below the placid sunshine ofthe mountain top which surrounds you. Or choose some oneof the colossal boulders that lie strewn around, as thoughdropped like a pebble from some mighty hand, and watch thegathering furv of a storm, which no man need ever attempt toportray. And finally

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