eak stands alone above them all,

For ever to claim kindred with the firmament,
And be companioned by the clouds of heaven.

The whole mountain is one barren mass of rock as we see it from the
town, for the eastern face is open to us almost down to the
foothills; deep perpendicular gorges and terrible ravines reveal
themselves by narrow white rifts, snow overlappings mark the canyons
and the course of streams. A dense black moss, as it appears to the
naked eye, covering some of the slopes and delicately fringing
summits and sharp ridges, is in reality a heavy growth of timber, the
sturdy pine, the tree beloved of Shakspeare. They cling mostly to the
southern slopes, leaping the northern ones to climb the south slope
of the next fold, sometimes leaving behind in their hurry a few
stragglers whose scrawny branches seem pitifully beckoning their
companions to wait."

Of the population and death-rate Dr. Solly writes:--

"The town extends over four square miles, upon which the houses of
the 6000 inhabitants are widely scattered. The residence lots are
mostly 50 x 190 feet; and the streets and avenues vary from 80 to 125
feet in width. There are therefore none of the objections of a city
in respect to overcrowding, and no manufactories or smelters to
pollute the air. The death-rate, exclusive of death from consumption,
is only 5.6 per 1000; from zymotic diseases, 1.6 per 1000."

There is a very extraordinary and I think an objectionable feature in
the town. No alcoholic liquors are allowed to be retailed. Thus if
you want even a glass of beer you can't get it. But you can have what
you will at home, or, if I remember right, in the principal hotels
_if_ you are living there. Temperance in _all_ indulgences is a grand
thing, and drunkenness is a beastly habit, but the parental
legislation described below by Mrs. Dunbar, scarcely recognizes the
liberty of the subject, and is a very strange fact in what is
supposed to be the freest country on earth.

"There are no saloons and bars in the city, for this is a temperance
town. The colony, after receiving the United States title to the
town plat, incorporated the following strong provision into the deed
of every lot and piece of ground thereafter sold:--

"'That intoxicating liquors shall never be manufactured, sold, or
otherwise disposed of, as a beverage, in any place of public resort,
in or upon the premises hereby granted.'

"Provision was also made in all deeds th