The Mountain (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: salt sulphur spring, with a temperature of 137 Fahr., which issues from a granite rock. Of the chemical composition and character generally not much has been said or known. There are a number of mineral and thermal springs in New Mexico. Thermal and sulphureous waters are found near the river Del Norte, some miles from Santa Fe. Mere catalogues are, of course, always intolerable, and dry details, even on mineral springs and waters in general, hare just been abundantly demonstrated to be among the things possible. After the precipitant recitation of the water distribution of a portion of North America just attempted, will not the beholder, in a quiet retrospection of the field, be struck by a few obvious convictions, and among them will not these be prominent ? If water is a good thing, if it be one of the few primeval indispensables, if it has played an important part in the past experiences of the planet, and is to play a still more significant agency in the great future mundane programme of the drama of time and space, have not the sister continents been bountifully cared for, divinely apportioned ? What means this intense and immense communion of the land and the sea, this prodigious transportation of water on the wings of the wind, these rivers of air which are rivers of water, those mighty Mississippis and Amazons pouring back the deposits of serial currents into the great ocean reservoir from which they came ? A significant fact this 40-inch precipitation over so much of the exposed side of a world, ?so much of the earth's surface thus made alive by springs of water of every order, ?those wonderful basins of wonderful rivers, what means this array of water, water everywhere? Other divisions of the globe have one of the great original elements in excess, ?as, too m.