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Identifier: ghostofglacierot01hunt (find matches)
Title: Ghost of the glacier and other tales
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Hunter, Will Bogert. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Chicago
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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^-=!!?il»^^f GHOST OF THE GLACIER, such battles were fought before the sea, driven back in thelast encounter, gave up the tight. As a result of these battles and of the dissensions ofthe River forces, what once had been a level plain withthe Palisades and the Kittitiny mountains for its borderswas a region of mountains and valleys and plains. This land, as we now viewed it, was of decaying beauty.Great trees stood in legions. Btneath were carpets that oncemust have been like the emerald in hue. Now all wasseared and brown. Once they had been fed by neighboringstreams, but now these rushing rivers had cut great gorges LAKE HOPATCONG.
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Copyritjlit, 1900, Detroit Photographic Co. far below the tree land and the grass land. Once, too, theSun had wooed these rivers ardently, so ardently that theirspirits had sought to join with his. But theirs was an uphilljourney, and before it was scarce begun their ardor cooledand they dropped again to bring life and happiness andbrightness to the trees and the flowers. Now the spirits ofthe sweeping streams were deep down where the Sun Godnever strayed and his loves no longer brought gladness tothe withering plants. Among these brown trees, eking out meager existence,moved animals which we had not known in the far north GHOST OF THE GLACIER, land. Captured spies of the South Wind told us of manyothers whicii they had seen in their long pilgrimages. Biting Beast, showing his enormous long incisors, foughtwith Fearful Horn, a cruel brute that shook in ragethree pairs of giant antlers. Beast of the Uintas andAvenging Horn roamed side by side. Mixed Tooth,part hog, part sheep; Strong T

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