Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 393
y upon nearly every highmountain. AVe can not be perfectly sure thatnew soils and new forests are being made inevery way just as they were a thousand or tenthousand years ago. Yet there is no doubtthat the process of to-day is like that ofyesterday in every important respect. Heatand frost, wind,… … THE WALL OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, PIKES PEAK. These great precipices, 2,000 feet high, are breaking down rapidly in response toincessant freezing and thawing. are worn down to form soil, and Nature sowsand tends the oldest of old-fashioned gardensjust as she always did. If we carefully follow,then,…
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