The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (Southern California) Its Rivers And Its Mountains, Its ...
The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (Southern California) Its Rivers And Its Mountains, Its ...
James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
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All the creek beds are strewn with these glacier-hewn and glacier-transported boulders, and day after day one may witness the cracking or breaking off" of the rock masses from the face of the cliffs. When I think of the students in the schools and colleges in Southern California, — at Redlands, Riverside, Corona, San Bernardino, Pomona, Ontario, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Long Beach, etc., — none of them more than four hours by rail away from this point, and how they might in this grand school of N...ature 78 The Wonders of the Colorado Desert learn something of her processes by actual contact^ I wonder and ask myself when will the teacher of the superior (!) race leam from the Indian, and, instead of teaching his classes about glaciers and soil-making from books, bring them out into the places where these things are actually transpiring? A few days camping out here will teach lessons that ten years of books can never supply. Higher up we come to the smoothed rock faces, where, cen- turies ago, the glaciers, larger than now, glided over these granite fields^ shaping them into curves and domes, and grooving them with the rocks they carried along.
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