The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1888-05-09
GIsAND MOUNT SHASTA.
a sketch Of Tho Imposing Pllo.

"A pRcCCn Oh II imposing Illc.
Between the great pines going up you
see the religious dome of Mount Shasta,
its SHOWS and frowns SO mixed that II
views it nearly With superstition.
Shasta is ono Of the finest MOUNTAINS
In America, u naked dome Of roc k.
gravel and perpetual snow, made by q
volcano,. and having Two side pieces or
TRANSCRIPTS, the whole mass standing up
in white and dun in crazy-quilt patches
of triangleS OF now and oyals Of rocks
and slides Of loan and gravel above q
skirt Of Oregon pines, which arc Of SOM
Der green, and seem the klrtle Of II huge,
muscular, naked man, wearing IL clout
of green, as lo kneclS upon the plateau
and surveys his brood OF moundy peaks
extending around him in an amphi-
theater Of 100 miles.
There is but one Shasta, and lie is a
oicrru-oilo OF tho bold range beyond
the Rockies, overlooking the Orient
West. "Tlerc is tho West; there is
Europe" says the statue Of Thomas
Benton at st. Louis, pointing ut tho
same time west.
There Is Il county Of California called
Shasta, and II range Of mountains be-
tween the Sacramento river and the sea
is called the shasta range. 1t is only q
nights rido OF u sleep of $40 miles be-
tween San francisco and Mount Shasts,
and in this ride you rise nearly $500
feet to Sisson, in Strawberry valley,
from which Mount Shasta's peak is still
10,6S5 feet higher, or above the sea H.
440 feet.
1t is 10, 1000 feet higher than tho Lick
Observatory on Mount Hamilton.
n'bta ia fl,o ,,ctvo,, of NTN,,,+ Ckn.l.t
that it rises SO grandly above everything
clsc--not like Pixies or Gray's, ono OF q
largo family Of mountains sitting around
the white tablecloth OF the skies. It
seems tho highest when you are at 1t.
and looks to he inaccessible. The rail-
road keeps winding around its base as q
WhcelbarrOw is guided around the
steeplcs Of u cathedral. It is more than
twice tho height Of Mount Washington,
and is scvel-eighths Of the height of
Mount Blanc.
For 1000 feet the Snow slides drob
down It's sides, frequently turning rcd.
Then for 1000 feet lower the inorganic
mass stands like a vulcan amid his Gin
ders. Next for 2000 feet enctInp tho
frs where once the lava licked the
world.
Yet it is only twelve miles from Sis
son, OIL the railroad, to Shasta's top.
and women have assembled it, and pant
and grumblo in the decd less than men.
In tour days there was carried up by
White men and Indians a copper monu-
ment weighing $500 pounds, Which can
be seen 100 miles away. But no signal
officer can live on Sllasta's top. Its
pimples, 1900 feet high, are like The
warts Oh Cromwell's head when
Wars like clouds Tint rise against the sun,
But make him grcntcr seem mot greater grow.
AS 1 passed Shasta u great white
cloud was trailing from it like q pen
non, called the ''snow-banner OF
Shasta" It was Il palpitating, cloud
like wild bird, failing for breath as it
flew, and holding tiptoc to tho peak,
with it's feet i'll snowdrifts, while its
plumage blew outward and away. 4
There is q butte, or mountain hump.
near Shasta $500 feet high, but tile
SHOWS, like virgin bellies at court, dis
dain to coquct with It and kcepall their
flax, & for Shasta. 1t, too. is Il fine and
stuck-up thing, quite solitary, but tho
miners call it only Shasta butte, as thu
actors called Mr.. Greene, when he CONF
pared himself to Shakespeare, Sliak6J8e
pcaro's call-boy. Coming up to ShasfssH
from the south by the tortuous canH@S&
OF the Sacramento, you sec tho gl#AsN&SS
mountain vaguely, yet tremen4
but going from 1t nortilward, as tNS8sBaS
connective turns often to see it,, l 2sz7SSs7teF
stands out naked rs before bold f &Ss4AASM48$$A
the domosticity of Tic heavens, &SAssSNSg&N
turage plains Of tho KlamatlI#MS%88sSSHsSS S5
ing below him like u coytrle6aN#&&t@@fS$s
away E8SR##&SS{53SSH
The Alps too often hide in 8@& &$#Saa8
ing dews of I4ombardy, but HSMgsMGMg4@@aa3az
set in a sky as limpid as the lid
eye OF IL babe. W&@SNSSsa&NS
How still it is, with that 6 8SSS9sSS
mistakable scar Of crater, a mNNSas ~
half wide, telling where hell cliNSa8sSES#&2Z
and vomited its blood and flameSs@SMSaN@S
or drunkcnly for some spasms o ESAES1SsR&
ai!ds Of years. We have resollYY aSSSsSlAs%
he'll is not, but therc is Shastf{SNS#SSSaS
somewhere must be fire. E3a2&NsSMSS2
Glorious relic OF q time vii ESS$$ssS#
was not and Pan was playing ,ESN$E]6si#S
tools of vulcan. tho molten Ms8SSaasESs
Shasta al away, spilllng ~estfA#8$s8 q
to II range Of mountains, eacNa#SS&S#sa&s ss
ing UP to be like Shasta's fA6MAkkSSg}SE8S#f II
making only tame miniaturesEf$a4S S@SSsA##&S
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