Californian Pictures in Prose And Verse
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On one snow-field there was a slight trace left of Tococcus nivalis, — the " red snow, " so called, — a very low form of vegetable life, which is some- 1 88 CALIFORNIAN PICTURES.
times so abundant on this mountain as to color the foot-prints in the snow blood-red. For three or four thousand feet below, the eye took in nothing but a wreck of rocky matter, of red and black lava-flow, of gray-colored scoriaceous debris, except where the snow and ice covered the surface and made it even more arctic... and desolate. Yet animal life was not quite absent. Lifting a piece of loose rock near the surveyor's monument, we revealed a little colony of lady-bugs, of a dark cinnamon color, with many darker spots. The tiny creatures crawled away feebly, making no effort to fly. What they could live on there we could not conjecture. A few snow-birds were twittering a thousand or two thousand feet be- low, and nearly up to the very crest of the Main Peak we saw a solitary California vulture wheeling slowly around.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
On one snow-field there was a slight trace left of Tococcus nivalis, — the " red snow, " so called, — a very low form of vegetable life, which is some- 1 88 CALIFORNIAN PICTURES.
times so abundant on this mountain as to color the foot-prints in the snow blood-red. For three or four thousand feet below, the eye took in nothing but a wreck of rocky matter, of red and black lava-flow, of gray-colored scoriaceous debris, except where the snow and ice covered the surface and made it even more arctic... and desolate. Yet animal life was not quite absent. Lifting a piece of loose rock near the surveyor's monument, we revealed a little colony of lady-bugs, of a dark cinnamon color, with many darker spots. The tiny creatures crawled away feebly, making no effort to fly. What they could live on there we could not conjecture. A few snow-birds were twittering a thousand or two thousand feet be- low, and nearly up to the very crest of the Main Peak we saw a solitary California vulture wheeling slowly around.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Benjamin Parke Avery to read onlineMoreLess
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