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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
2I2 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VIII.
recede the nearer I approached it. One rise
after another I surmounted, thinking it would
prove the summit. The valley was wide and
open, and the going perfectly easy, leading
sometimes over round boulders, but more often
loose soil. At length I reached a small lake,
about a quarter of a mile in length, and a small
rise above it at the farther end was the last one
of all and the summit of the pass was reached.
I rushed up, and there before me lay the
" other side," and surely no view which man
has ever seen can excel that. To describe the
scene in words would be impossible. There
are no words with which to do so, and to
attempt it with those that are at our disposal
would but stain its simple grandeur and mag-
nificence.
Before me rose tier after tier of stately
mountains, among the highest in the world
peaks of untainted snow, whose summits reached
to heights of twenty-five thousand, twenty-six
thousand, and, in one supreme case, twenty-
eight thousand feet above sea-level. There
was this wonderful array of mountain majesty
set out before me across a deep rock-bound
valley, and away in the distance, filling up the
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