Show SOUTO WONDERFUL MOUNT W Of SAND A few fe miles mUe southwest of a in a little littletown littletown town tow which has ha become bm famous far u us through the Boer war a a mountain mount ot o white wite sand Perhaps I should shoud say sy stands tand a 3 mountain mout of white whitesand whitesand sand but that tt would not no be true tre The sand rises rise and falls fails and ad about and ad in so doing d ing makes mae music musie or r sounds which seem like music musi among aon sur surroundings s so s desolate as a a South Af Al African A rican rica desert de The Te highest hghes hill hi of sand sd sandIn in n this locality is i about abut 70 feet fet and d there here thee are many many hillocks round rud about about The he whole neighborhood is is however constantly changing its it appearance and whee e there tre may my be a consider considerable cne able tible bl hill hi today to ay there them may be le D a flat fat plain plan or even a hollow tomorrow There Te seems seem to be periodic pr ic cini f nt floods like tho those in hi i the Arabian desert Many lIany lay explanations of the cause cue of o othe the music in ia the sands sd have been given but the most satisfactory is i i that hat of friction fricton of the ie little particles I of sand upon one cne another As the S sand sd rolls rols down a hum hu comes come from the I rubbing of the particles together One can Cn see s the sand constantly rolling down the steep ba ba l At first the I sound sund is like Ut a strain stan of o distant music of f the cliffs conning coming through tuh one near nearby nearby by b Then It seems s like a a continuous musical muc chord very ve much m ch like a sol aol solomn 01 a cathedral chant drant c t At times If ff you are a standing on one o e of the little hil hillocks hI locks lock the sounds soud seem sem to t come cm from froma froma a a burled buried cloister under uder your feet fot There Tere is mystery and enchantment n about it ital all al a dead dea sie silence ce save for the mimic of the rolling sand is everywhere It seems I ems almost like sacrilege to 1 break the that such conditions spell seU suc bring One strange thing about the t shift shifting shir ing lug and falling falln of tine the t e sand is that it itcan itc itcan can c go ga on for years Ye as a it i does doe In Ina a short time the te of the sand sd should reduce the hills to hil t a level Jevel Jevel No winds wind could cud heap bOap heap up the sand sd in the t form in which thy they th y exist and there tee seems ems to be no vol volcanic action Yet these thee hills hiU of sand d shift hitt about abut rise ri and ad fall fal and ad make music an accorn accompaniment of their the queer quee operations opton We Weare Weare Weare are not hot yet t pluck pl ck out the heart heat of their mystery |