Lippincott's Magazine
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.
OCTOBER, 1880.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by J. B.Lippincott & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, atWashington.
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Contents
A CHAPTER OF AMERICAN EXPLORATION.
ADAM AND EVE.
SEVEN WEEKS A MISSIONARY.
FINDELKIND OF MARTINSWAND: A CHILD'S STORY.
HORSE-RACING IN FRANCE.
FROM FAR.
AMERICANS ABROAD.
GLIMPSES OF PORTUGAL AND THE PORTUGUESE.
A GRAVEYARD IDYL.
STUDIES IN THE SLUMS.
UNDER THE GRASSES.
"KITTY."
A GREAT SINGER.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
A CHAPTER OF AMERICAN EXPLORATION.
GLEN CAÑON.Those adventurous gentlemen who derive exhilaration from peril, andextract febrifuge for the high pressure of a too exuberant constitutionfrom the difficulties of the Alps, cannot find such peaks as theAiguille Verte and the Matterhorn, with their friable and precipitouscliffs, among the Rocky Mountains. The geological processes have beengentler in evolving the latter than the former, and in the proper seasonsummits not less elevated nor less splendid or comprehensive than that[Pg 394]of the Matterhorn, upon which so many lives have been defiantly wasted,may be attained without any great degree of danger or fatigue. All butthe apex may often be reached in the saddle. The bergschrund with itsfragile lip of ice, the crevasse with its treacherous bridges, and theavalanche which an ill-timed footstep starts with overwhelming havoc,do not threaten the explorer of the Western mountains; and ordinarily hepasses from height to height—from the base with its wreaths ofevergreens to the zone where vegetation is limited to the gnarleddwarf-pine, from the foot-hills to the basin of the crisp alpine lakefar above the life-limits—without once having to scale a cliff,supposing, of course, that he has chosen the best path. The trail may benarrow at times, with nothing between it and a gulf, and it may bepitched at an angle that compels the