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Canyon colors. It has no peer. The Yellowstone outranks by far any
similar volcanic area in the world. It contains more and greater geysers
than all the rest of the world together; the next in rank are divided
between Iceland and New Zealand. Its famous canyon is alone of its
quality of beauty. Except for portions of the African jungle, the
Yellowstone is probably the most populated wild animal area in the
world, and its wild animals are comparatively fearless, even sometimes
friendly. Mount Rainier has a single-peak glacier system whose equal has
not yet been discovered. Twenty-eight living glaciers, some of them very
large, spread, octopus-like, from its centre. It is four hours by rail
or motor from Tacoma. Crater Lake is the deepest and bluest accessible
lake in the world, occupying the hole left after one of our largest
volcanoes had slipped back into earth's interior through its own rim.
[Illustration: GENERAL GRANT TREE It has a National Park all to itself]
Yosemite possesses a valley whose compelling beauty the world
acknowledges as supreme. The valley is the centre of eleven hundred
square miles of high altitude wilderness. The Sequoia contains more than
a million sequoia trees, twelve thousand of which are more than ten feet
in diameter, and some of which are the largest and oldest living things
in the wide world. The Grand Canyon of Arizona is by far the hugest and
noblest example of erosion in the world. It is gorgeously carved and
colored. In sheer sublimity it offers an unequalled spectacle. Mount
McKinley stands more than 20,000 feet above sea level, and 17,000 feet
above the surrounding valleys. Scenically, it is the world's loftiest
mountain, for the monsters of the Andes and the Himalayas which surpass
it in altitude can be viewed closely only from