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Show A Mountain Meadow. Mount Rainier, which rises to a height of 14,444 feet from the shores of Puget sound, is the most beautiful of the mountains moun-tains of the United States as it is the most difficult to ascend. A party of nine men, including Mr. John Muir, the well known student of the Cord ill eran glaciers, gained the summit and were fortunate in obtaining a large number of photographs photo-graphs of the mountain and of various aspects of vegetation encountered during I the journey. One of the party writes: j "This particular meadow on which we , J encamped lies between glaciers of the j Xisqually and Cowlitz rivers, on the south side of the mountain- It covers probably four square miles and ranges in altitude from 5,000 to 7,000 feet The meadow on the east side of the mountain, moun-tain, between the Cowlitz and Natcbess i glaciers, is about the same size and dif j fers but little in vegetation. The other j meadows on the main mountain are much J smaller and, with one exception, difficult I of access. The meadowson thesummits of tho surrounding lower mountains are 1 quite extensive, however. The timber on the meadows is confined mainly to the crests of the ridges running up the ' mountain." Garden and Forest. |