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Show THE GLACIER ' NATIONAL PARK "' i I I f U HI J ' , Olacler.,Natlcnal-Park la one otthe showiest exposure of Algonhlan rock in tho word, though that of the Grand Canyon so far la more celebrated. cele-brated. The Algonhlan rocks are the oldest surface rocks la the world, except where the graaltea and other Igaeous rocks of the Archean, Era emerge upon, the surface principally shales and limestones ; tho shale show the reds and' greens familiar at the Grand Canyon Jn Arlaaaa;the llme stone turn yellow on exposure to the air, Glacier National Fork la mar-velously, mar-velously, colored. -. j. The Algoaklan, rocks of the Grand Canyon were exposed by the Colorado River waahlng out a channel mora than a talle deep. Those i or Glacier National Prk were, exposed by being hojsted thousands of feet upward, by Internal earth t pressure, ,, cracking, cracking along the surface and one aide 'of the crack thrusting up and over the other aide; then the' rains aad,1NMa'f mlUlaaf .years washed, sway'att: .a" m' tham'nid' laWytaikUasetWad. ' '; "The- --throe raecaedtog ilea lava-lnos lava-lnos from the north created mighty glaciers -whleh hollowed enormous clrauea'and' scooped -oat deep broad vallajra. , rL'tkM a'U-deiWaaiMag, s fs . t t t J- . 'fit " ft' ;lhfMt tha greater Jay, af a, visfttal oier,NaMaal ark., greater oraavl Uiaa the Wthrallmeat af tta extrarl erdia'aVaeaaaiy er the'Heaiare it livUg t.;lt,fMti'e-. ;'thU very taetM-detatta.atJ whVcr;aro-wTb5oVe te.'.ye'wVth'l lVlak.'elaaM.:':There Is' 'no ffat 3 iiufued'surf see whleh 'iS.' notjproelalm the'ttale. The, least' ef-1 for.of imis'giaitloa refills these Vsit'l cirque aad sweillng valleys with thai writhtttg'serpeiits of lee whtcli "oaeif bit 'aad clawed these painted shales Into 'their ornate shapings of to-day.1 The tourist enters a labyrinth of enormous circular chambers whose walls, whlcr vary from. ,iw'o fo flya' thousand feet n height, are sometime some-time the sides of towering mountains roak.i 4amtJe,(aa wlthIoeaarg laha,' these, "chsmhui-are so hlttaa without aa well aa wfthla that they seem more like buUdad amahlheatara thai .hollowed, cirques stooped them have loag disappeared and their valleys val-leys are carpeted with forests. and flowery , meadows'1 and Jeweled .with lakes, of (Incomparable beauty. But for up north-side slopes, perched upon shelves, shaded by summits,' He what are left of the glaciers, sixty out of masy times that number, beautiful, fulle, Inslgnlflcent remalnded of a tremendous past. , |