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Title: The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, your fingers are the gla-ciers and the spaces between them are these parks ofpines and wild flowers like Paradise Valley where wenow are sitting. Are there many parks? asked Aunt Jane. Oh, a lot of them, cried Jack with his eyes on themap. Here is one called Indian Henrys HuntingGround. Theres one called Spray Park; I supposethere are waterfalls there. And another is calledSummerland. Uncle Tom, asked Margaret, what is a glacier,anyway? Of course I know it is a river of ice. Butthese seem so different from those wide, littler glaciersin the Glacier National Park. I dont understand. These glaciers, my dear, said Uncle Tom, areliterally rivers of ice, as you say. They start in enor-mous hollows in the rocks several thousand feet belowthe top of the mountain which winter always keepsfull of fresh snow. These hollows correspond to thesprings or lakes where rivers of water start. Thissnow, of course, is immensely heavy and keeps slippingdown the side of the mountain, just as the water in
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Photograph by Curtis and Miller The celebrated Nisqually Glacier From its cirque just below the summit one may follow its course to the right, then, after a sharpturn, to the left. The picture was taken in Paradise Valley 122 THE TOP OF THE CONTINENT springs and lakes overflows in streams. As the snowslips down the mountainside, following depressionsin the rocks, just as the streams of water follow thevalleys, it becomes packed hard; then it is called neve.A little farther down the pressure of the snow abovesqueezes it into ice; and a little farther down, this iceis so squeezed that it becomes hard and blue. **Like the river of water, this river of ice windsaround through valleys. Do you see away up therehow the Nisqually Glacier turns a corner around thathuge rock? Like the river of water, it breaks intoripples when it runs down slanting places, and intocascades and waterfalls when it runs over precipices.Like the river of water, which grows bigger becauseother streams empty into it,

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