What sublimity and granlcur! On
the continental divide this 'oary old
sentinel of the nmd-contincnt stood
watch and ward on creation's morn. We
creep upward, and from the car we
count four tracks far down in the chasm
below, over which we have passed,
traveling six miles to make one in dis
tauce. While we sweep on in a cooler
atmosphere we gather our wraps about
us as we come to face old Ouray covered
with snow on the 22nd of July. We are
now up to timber line, but what wealth
of beauty lies just below in acres on
acres of flowers that have bloomed ages
upon ages, with no eye to feast on their
beauty or to breathe their perfume but
the eye of the eternal Gol. A little
stream comes dashing down the rocky
sides of the great monarch, its waters
glistening in the sunlight like dewy
tears. On alpeds the train, while clouds
lay below u- nestling anmeg the crags
and pe ak over B. ich .e have laSed.
A storm cloud in the distance sends its
artillery booming through mountain
fortre.s;es and craggy peaks, and rain
kis,'s t.he mounmt':in-siis and vaiev.
belw Iu, .vhiicon niad p, we st>eed in
the brit sanniint. a.,;. we.'.',,.;
little piirk adorned with flowers of na
ture's planting and a little purling
stream singing its rippling song. The
engine goes thundering on and soon
sends its shrill whistle screeching over
the Atlantic and Pacific slope, and we
set foot on the summit where the waters
of the spring are divided and go purling
on their way eastward and westward.
