Excerpt from Around the World, Vol. 1: Contributions to a Knowledge of the Earth and Its Inhabitants The level of perpetual snow in the Sel kirks is found at about 7000 feet, and it is doubtful if any of the mountain peaks rise above this line. Sir Donald, with an altitude somewhat exceeding 10 600 feet, is seemingly the loftiest summit. The stately growth of fir, cedar, spruce, and hemlock - some of the trees of gigantic dimensions - approaches in places to within a thousand feet of the snow-line. It is rankly overgrown ...
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Excerpt from Around the World, Vol. 1: Contributions to a Knowledge of the Earth and Its Inhabitants The level of perpetual snow in the Sel kirks is found at about 7000 feet, and it is doubtful if any of the mountain peaks rise above this line. Sir Donald, with an altitude somewhat exceeding 10 600 feet, is seemingly the loftiest summit. The stately growth of fir, cedar, spruce, and hemlock - some of the trees of gigantic dimensions - approaches in places to within a thousand feet of the snow-line. It is rankly overgrown by undergrowth, and harbors a vast amount of game - bear, deer, Rocky Mountain goat and sheep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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