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12.--Dutch Baked Mackerel.
Place the mackerel in a baking-dish; sprinkle with pepper and chopped
parsley. Cover with fried bread-crumbs and bits of butter, and moisten
with cream. Then bake until brown on top and serve hot with
stewed potatoes.
13.--Polish Roast Mutton.
Season a leg of mutton with salt, pepper and a... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
18.--German Lentil Soup.
To 1 gallon of soup stock, add 1 quart of lentils. Let boil until
lentils are soft, with 1 sliced onion. Then add some small sausages.
Let boil five minutes. Season to taste and serve the soup with the
sausages and croutons fried in butter.
19.--French Spiced Venison.
Rub the venison with sa... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
24.--Russian Beet Soup.
Boil 5 medium-sized beets until tender; then chop and add to a highly
seasoned chicken broth. Add the juice of 1 lemon, some cinnamon and
nutmeg; let boil fifteen minutes. Then add 1 glass of red wine, mixed
with a teaspoonful of brown sugar. Let boil a few minutes longer and
serve with fried ... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
2.--Jewish Shallét.
Line a well-buttered pudding-dish with a rich pie-paste and cover with
a layer of sliced apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon, grated lemon peel
and small bits of butter, and moisten with white wine; then cover with
a layer of the paste and fill with another layer of apples, nuts and
raisins, a tablespo... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
7.--Austrian Apple Strudel.
Mix 1 pint of flour with 1/2 cup of water, 4 ounces of butter, 3 eggs
and a pinch of salt to a stiff dough; then roll out as thin as
possible. Pour over some melted butter; cover with chopped apples and
raisins. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Make a large roll; bake in
a buttered baking... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
13.--Polish Chops.
Season veal chops with salt and pepper and let fry a few minutes in
hot dripping. Remove the chops and cover with a mixture of bacon,
liver, onions and parsley minced fine and well seasoned. Then let bake
in the oven with 1 cup of beef broth. Baste often and serve very hot.
14.--Spanish Stewed Rab... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
20.--French Waffles.
Sift 3 cups of flour with 1-1/2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder and 1/2
teaspoonful of salt. Beat the yolks of 3 eggs; add a tablespoonful of
melted butter and 2 cups of warm milk. Add the beaten whites and stir
in the flour, making a light batter. Grease the waffle irons and fill
with the batter. ... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
26.--Jewish Stewed Brisket.
Boil beef brisket until tender, and slice thin. Heat 2 tablespoonfuls
of butter; add 1 chopped onion. Stir in 1 tablespoonful of flour until
brown. Add the water in which the meat was cooked, 1/2 cup of raisins,
1/2 cup of vinegar, 1 tablespoonful of brown sugar and some cinnamon
and 1 car... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
Boil a trout well seasoned; add 1 sliced onion, 1 carrot chopped, 2
sprigs of parsley and 1 bay-leaf, a few peppercorns and 1
tablespoonful of butter. When done, beat the yolks of 2 eggs with a
little cream; add salt and a pinch of cayenne. Remove the fish to a
platter. Mix the egg sauce with the water in which the fi... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
6.--Scotch Omelet.
Boil young tender leeks in salted water; let drain. Chop to a fine
mince and fry in hot butter. Add 6 well-beaten eggs, sprinkle with
salt and pepper and fold into an omelet and serve on a hot dish.
7.--Jewish Egg Bread.
Soak some matzoths in milk for a few minutes; then dip them into
seasoned bea... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
13.--Swedish Baked Turnips.
Peel small tender turnips; heat 1 tablespoonful of butter in a
saucepan. Place the turnips in whole, sprinkle with salt and pepper;
add a tablespoonful of sugar. Pour over a cup of water; cover and let
cook for one hour until tender but not broken. Thicken the sauce with
flour and milk. Ad... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
Make a rich pie-dough. Line a buttered pie-dish with the dough; then
slice three onions very thin and let cook in hot butter until tender;
add a pinch of salt. Fill the pie with the onions, cover the top with
cream and let bake in a moderate oven until done. Serve hot or cold.
20.--French Apple Fritters.
Peel and sli... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
26.--Polish Stewed Beans.
Break string-beans into pieces and let boil in salted water until
tender; then heat 1 tablespoonful of butter; stir in 1 tablespoonful
of flour until brown. Add the water in which the beans were cooked,
1/2 cup of vinegar, 1 tablespoonful of brown sugar, some cinnamon and
cloves to taste. Le... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
2.--Jewish Kugel.
Soak 1/2 loaf of bread in water; then press it dry. Heat 1/2 cup of
butter and mix with the bread; add 2 chopped apples, 1/2 cup of
raisins, 1/2 cup of pounded almonds and the grated peel of a lemon.
Add the yolks of 4 eggs and the whites beaten to a stiff froth; mix
well together. Put in a buttered... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
7.--Norwegian Fruit Pudding.
Boil 1 pint of raspberries and 1 pint of red currants in 2 cups of
water until soft; add 3 cups of sugar, some cinnamon, 1 cup of pounded
almonds and 1 tablespoonful of chopped citron. Let cook and mash until
smooth; then thicken with a little cornstarch. Remove from the fire
and pour int... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
14.--Hungarian Fried Noodles.
Beat 3 eggs with 2 tablespoonfuls of water; add a pinch of salt and
enough flour to make a stiff dough work well. Then roll out as thin as
paper; fold the dough and cut into round pieces; fry in deep hot lard
to a golden brown. Serve hot with stewed chicken.
15.--Belgian Roast Lamb.
Sea... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
21.--French Chocolate Biscuits.
Beat the yolks of 6 eggs with 10 ounces of powered sugar; add 1 ounce
of powdered French chocolate. Mix well with 4 ounces of flour and the
whites beaten stiff with a pinch of salt; add 1 tablespoonful of
vanilla extract. Bake on wafer sheets in small cakes to a light brown.
22.--Indi... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
Take 2 quart of black cherries; remove the stones and mix with 1/2
pound of fine bread-crumbs, some chopped nuts, the beaten yolks of 4
eggs and 1/2 cup of sugar. Add the whites beaten stiff. Bake in a
well-buttered pudding-dish and serve cold.
29.--Italian Potato Balls.
Peel and boil potatoes in salted water until s... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
3.--Scotch Stuffed Eggs.
Boil eggs until hard; remove the shells. Cut out the centres
lengthwise; then chop cooked chicken to a fine mince; add the yolk of
a raw egg and mix with cream. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Fill the eggs and dip them in beaten eggs and fine bread-crumbs and
fry a light brown. Serve h... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
9.--Scotch Rarebit.
Cut 1/2 pound of cheese in very small pieces and add 1 ounce of fresh
butter, 2 tablespoonfuls of fine bread-crumbs, 1 teaspoonful of
prepared mustard, salt and pepper and a pinch of cayenne to taste. Mix
well together to a smooth paste. Have ready some buttered toast; place
on a dish, spread with... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
15.--Liver a la Bourgogne.
Season a calf's liver with salt and pepper; put a few slices of bacon
in a saucepan; let get very hot. Add the liver, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 2
bay-leaves and 2 sprigs of thyme minced fine; cover and let brown a
few minutes. Then add 1 glass of sherry wine, salt and pepper and
sprinkle with flou... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
22.--Spanish Salad.
Take 1/2 pound of chopped chicken, 1/4 pound of almonds, 1 red pepper,
1 Spanish onion and 1 head of chicory chopped fine. Mix in a salad
bowl with 1/4 teaspoonful of salt, 1 teaspoonful of curry-powder, 2
tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar, 4 tablespoonfuls of olive-oil.
Garnish with sliced beets... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
Slice boiled potatoes thin; chop some onion very fine; slice 2
hard-boiled eggs and mix. Sprinkle all with salt and pepper. Then heat
some vinegar. Add a teaspoonful of made mustard and stir with the
beaten yolk of an egg. Mix all together with 1 tablespoonful of hot
butter and chopped parsley. Serve with cold meats.
... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
6.--Hungarian Chicken Soup.
Boil a large chicken in 3 quarts of water; season with salt, sage and
pepper; add 1 onion chopped and cook until tender. Remove the chicken
and chop it fine; then add to the soup with the yolks of 3 well-beaten
eggs; let all get very hot. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve
at once.
7... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
13.--German Cheese Pie.
Line a pie-plate with a rich pie-dough. Mix 1 cup of cottage cheese
with 1 tablespoonful of butter, 1/4 cup of sugar, 2 eggs, a pinch of
salt and a few currants. Mix well. Fill the pie. Sprinkle with sugar
and cinnamon and bake until light brown. Serve hot or cold.
14.--Italian Veal Patés.
Ch... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
20.--Scotch Stewed Onions.
Boil 1 dozen small onions and 4 leeks in salted water until tender;
drain. Heat 2 tablespoonfuls of butter. Stir in 1 tablespoonful of
flour until smooth but not brown; then add 1/2 pint of rich milk;
season highly with pepper, and salt to taste. Add the onions; let boil
up and serve.
21.-... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
26.--Vienna Cherry Cake.
Make a rich biscuit dough; roll out; then put on a well-buttered
baking-tin. Stone black cherries. Sprinkle the dough with flour and
cover with the cherries. Sprinkle with sugar and let bake until done.
Then cover with a sweetened egg custard and bake until brown.
Serve cold.
27.--Belgian Po... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
2.--Scotch Soup.
Cut a sheep's liver into pieces and stew with the sheep's head in 4
quarts of water. Add sliced onions, sliced leeks, carrots, turnips,
parsley and thyme, salt, pepper and a few cloves. Let all cook until
tender; then strain. Let stand until cool. Skim off the fat; heat and
mix with flour until brown... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
9.--Swiss Pancakes.
Peel and grate 4 raw potatoes; mix with 1 ounce of butter, 1 ounce of
bread-crumbs, 1/4 pint of milk, 1 large tablespoonful of Swiss cheese,
the yolks of three eggs and the whites beaten stiff. Season with salt
and pepper and mix with 1 tablespoonful of flour to a smooth batter;
then fry in hot la... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
16.--Spanish Chicken.
Cut a spring chicken into pieces at the joints; season with salt and
pepper and fry until brown. Remove the chicken; add 1 onion, 2 cloves
of garlic chopped and 1 cup of tomato-sauce. Cover and let simmer;
then add the chicken with 1 glass of sherry wine. Cook ten minutes.
Serve hot with boiled ... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
23.--Greek Cucumbers.
Peel large cucumbers; cut off the ends; scoop out the seeds; sprinkle
with salt. Then mix boiled rice with some chopped green onions and
stuff the cucumbers. Lay the cucumbers in a stew-pan; pour over 1 cup
of stock and the juice of a lemon; add 1 tablespoonful of butter, and
let cook until tend... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
30.--Irish Cucumber Salad.
Peel the cucumbers and slice thin; add 1 onion sliced. Sprinkle well
with salt; let stand half an hour on ice; press out all the water;
sprinkle with white pepper and chopped parsley. Add vinegar mixed with
sugar, to taste, and salad oil. Serve at once.
31.--German Iced Beer Soup.
Take one... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
6.--Spanish Baked Chicken.
Clean and season a chicken with salt and pepper and let boil until
tender. Put the chicken in a baking-dish; pour over some tomato-sauce
highly seasoned; sprinkle with well-buttered bread-crumbs and let bake
until brown. Place on a large platter with a border of boiled rice and
pour over th... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
13.--Greek Cakes.
Mix 1/2 pound of butter and 1 cup of sugar to a cream; add 4
well-beaten eggs and the grated rind and juice of 1/2 lemon. Then stir
in 1/2 pound of flour and work into a smooth dough. Lay on a
well-floured baking-board and roll out thin. Cut into fancy shapes and
bake in a moderate oven until done. ... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
18.--German Liver Dumplings.
Chop 1/2 pound of liver; add 1 chopped onion, some parsley, salt,
pepper and a little nutmeg. Mix with 2 beaten eggs and 1 tablespoonful
of butter. Add enough bread-crumbs to form into small balls and boil
in soup-stock and serve with the soup.
19.--Jewish Sour Fish.
Season a trout and l... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
25.--Jewish Gefuellte Fish.
Take 2 pounds of trout and 2 pounds of red fish; cut in two-inch
slices. Remove the skin from one side of the slices. Chop 2 onions;
add salt, pepper and mix with fine cracker-crumbs and 1 egg to a
paste. Lay the paste on the fish and put back the skin. Boil the fish
with salt, pepper and ... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
_OCTOBER._
1.--Oriental Pudding.
Heat 1 large cup of milk and stir in 3 tablespoonfuls of butter; let
boil up. Then stir in 1 small cup of flour sifted with 1 teaspoonful
of baking-powder and a pinch of salt; stir until a smooth batter. Then
remove from the fire and stir in 4 well-beaten eggs, 1/2 cup of
preserved g... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
6.--Japanese Fish.
Clean and season a large white fish with salt and paprica and let boil
with 4 sliced shallots and 1 clove of garlic mashed fine. When nearly
done, add 1 tablespoonful of butter, 2 sprigs of parsley chopped fine,
1 tablespoonful of soy, 1 tablespoonful each of tarragon and
Worcestershire sauce. Let ... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
Take 1 cup of boiled rice and mix with 3 beaten eggs. Then sift 1/2
cup of flour with 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder and a pinch of salt.
Add some sugar to taste. Beat to a light thick batter and fry a
spoonful at a time in boiling lard. Sprinkle with pulverized sugar and
serve hot with cooked fruit.
13.--French Lett... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
18.--Italian Baked Fish.
Clean and season a blue fish with salt, pepper and cloves. Lay the
fish in a baking-pan with 1 onion chopped fine and 2 tablespoonfuls of
chopped carrot and parsley. Pour over 1 glass of wine; sprinkle with
flour. Put flakes of butter over the fish and let bake until brown.
Serve with macaron... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
24.--German Stuffed Turkey.
Singe and clean a fat turkey. Season well with salt and pepper. Chop
the giblets; add some chopped veal and pork, 1 onion, 2 cloves of
garlic and parsley chopped, salt and pepper. Mix with 2 eggs and stuff
the turkey. Put in the dripping-pan with some hot water. Dredge with
flour; let bake... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
30.--Bread Pudding a la Caramel.
Mix 1 pint of soft bread-crumbs with 1/2 cup of seeded raisins, 2
tablespoonfuls of sugar and 2 eggs. Stir in 1 cup of milk and bake in
a well-buttered pudding-dish until brown. Then boil 1-1/2 cups of
brown sugar with 1/2 cup of milk and 4 tablespoonfuls of chocolate.
Stir until smoo... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
4.--Spanish Tongue.
Boil a beef tongue until tender; take off the outer skin. Then rub
with butter and the beaten yolk of an egg; put in a baking-dish. Add
1/2 cup of the water in which the tongue was cooked, 1/2 glass of wine
and 1/2 can of mushrooms. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and let bake
until brown. Serve gar... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
10.--English Layer Cake.
Bake 3 layers of sponge-cake; then mix some jelly with wine and spread
between the layers and over the top and sides. Cover with a rich
chocolate icing, flavored with vanilla.
11.--Dutch Rice Pudding.
Mix 1 cup of rice in 2 cups of milk; add 1 tablespoonful of butter,
the yolks of 4 eggs, th... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
17.--Polish Rice Pudding.
Heat 1 quart of milk; add 1 cup of boiled rice, 3 ounces of seeded
raisins and 2 ounces of currants. Let cook ten minutes. Then add the
grated peel of a lemon, 1/4 of a grated nutmeg and the yolks of 6 eggs
well beaten with 1 cup of sugar. Mix thoroughly and pour into a
well-buttered pudding... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
23.--Belgian Broiled Quail.
Select fat quails. Rub with salt, pepper and butter and tie a very
thin strip of bacon around the body of each quail. Place on a broiler
over a slow fire; let broil twenty minutes until done. Remove the
bacon. Have ready buttered toast. Place the birds on the toast, pour
over some melted b... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
29.--Oriental Rabbit Pie.
Clean and cut a rabbit into small pieces and let stew, well seasoned
with salt and pepper and cayenne. Add 2 chopped cloves of garlic, 1
chopped green pepper, 1 Spanish onion sliced thin and 2 sliced
tomatoes, a pinch of cloves and allspice. Then line a pie-dish with a
puff paste; let bake a... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
5.--Egyptian Salad.
Mix highly seasoned cold cooked rice with some grated onion, chopped
parsley and chives; add 2 dozen fine cut French sardines. Put on crisp
lettuce leaves in a salad bowl and cover with a mayonnaise dressing
Garnish with thin shreds of red beets, and serve.
6.--English Dumplings.
Beat 3 yolks of ... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
12.--Italian Macaroni.
Boil macaroni in salted water until tender. Drain. Then heat 2
tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan; add the macaroni, 1/2 cup of
chopped boiled tongue, 1/2 cup of chopped mushrooms, 1/2 cup of grated
cheese. Cover, let get very hot. Then mix a highly seasoned
tomato-sauce with a small glass... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
17.--Russian Pickled Herring.
Soak 1 dozen herring over night in water; then mash the milch and roes
and mix with 4 tablespoonfuls of brown sugar. Put the herring in a
large dish with 2 large onions sliced; make alternate layers of
herring, onions and sliced lemon, 8 bay-leaves, a few cloves, whole
peppers and some m... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
23.--Italian Salad.
Cut 1 pound of cooked veal in very small pieces; add 1 herring that
has been soaked in milk, 3 cooked potatoes, 2 pickles, 3 boiled beets,
3 apples, 2 stalks of celery, 1 cooked carrot. Pour over a mayonnaise
dressing and garnish with sliced hard-boiled eggs, olives and capers.
24.--Hungarian Ste... | 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year | Unknown | ['en'] | 145 | {'Cooking'} | PG10011 | |||
[Illustration]
The Mountains of California
by John Muir
Contents
I THE SIERRA NEVADA
II THE GLACIERS
III THE SNOW
IV A NEAR VIEW OF THE HIGH SIERRA
V THE PASSES
VI THE GLACIER LAKES
VII THE GLACIER MEADOWS
VIII THE FORESTS
IX THE DOUGLAS SQUIRREL
X A WIND-STORM IN THE FORESTS
XI THE RIVER FLOODS
XII SIER... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
CHAPTER I
THE SIERRA NEVADA
Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains are ever in
sight, charming and glorifying every landscape. Yet so simple and
massive is the topography of the State in general views, that the main
central portion displays only one valley, and two chains of mountains
which seem... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
When I first enjoyed this superb view, one glowing April day, from the
summit of the Pacheco Pass, the Central Valley, but little trampled or
plowed as yet, was one furred, rich sheet of golden compositae, and the
luminous wall of the mountains shone in all its glory. Then it seemed
to me the Sierra should be called n... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
In many places, especially in the middle region of the western flank of
the range, the main cañons widen into spacious valleys or parks,
diversified like artificial landscape-gardens, with charming groves and
meadows, and thickets of blooming bushes, while the lofty, retiring
walls, infinitely varied in form and sculp... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: MAP OF THE SIERRA NEVADA]
The rose-purple zone along the base of the range comprehends nearly all
the famous gold region of California. And here it was that miners from
every country under the sun assembled in a wild, torrent-like rush to
seek their fortunes. On the banks of every river, ravine, and gul... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Every winter the High Sierra and the middle forest region get snow in
glorious abundance, and even the foot-hills are at times whitened. Then
all the range looks like a vast beveled wall of purest marble. The
rough places are then made smooth, the death and decay of the year is
covered gently and kindly, and the groun... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The Cinder Cone near marks the most recent volcanic eruption in the
Sierra. It is a symmetrical truncated cone about 700 feet high, covered
with gray cinders and ashes, and has a regular unchanged crater on its
summit, in which a few small Two-leaved Pines are growing. These show
that the age of the cone is not less t... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: MOUNT SHASTA]
Standing on the icy top of this, the grandest of all the fire-mountains
of the Sierra, we can hardly fail to look forward to its next eruption.
Gardens, vineyards, homes have been planted confidingly on the flanks
of volcanoes which, after remaining steadfast for ages, have suddenly
blazed... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Toward the close of the glacial period, when the snow-clouds became
less fertile and the melting waste of sunshine became greater, the
lower folds of the ice-sheet in California, discharging fleets of
icebergs into the sea, began to shallow and recede from the lowlands,
and then move slowly up the flanks of the Sierra... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Contemplating the works of these flowers of the sky, one may easily
fancy them endowed with life: messengers sent down to work in the
mountain mines on errands of divine love. Silently flying through the
darkened air, swirling, glinting, to their appointed places, they seem
to have taken counsel together, saying, “Com... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The glaciers of Switzerland, like those of the Sierra, are mere wasting
remnants of mighty ice-floods that once filled the great valleys and
poured into the sea. So, also, are those of Norway, Asia, and South
America. Even the grand continuous mantles of ice that still cover
Greenland, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Franz-... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: MAP OF THE GLACIER COUNTRY]
Northward from here the glaciers gradually diminish in size and
thickness, and melt at higher levels. In Prince William Sound and
Cook’s Inlet many fine glaciers are displayed, pouring from the
surrounding mountains; but to the north of latitude 62° few, if any,
glaciers rema... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: MOUNT RAINIER; NORTH PUYALLUP GLACIER FROM EAGLE CLIFF]
This fragmentary ice-sheet, and the immense glaciers about Mount St.
Elias, together with the multitude of separate river-like glaciers that
load the slopes of the coast mountains, evidently once formed part of a
continuous ice-sheet that flowed ov... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Traces of the vanished glaciers made during the period of greater
extension abound on the Sierra as far south as latitude 36°. Even the
polished rock surfaces, the most evanescent of glacial records, are
still found in a wonderfully perfect state of preservation on the upper
half of the middle portion of the range, an... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
A similar blurred condition of the superficial records of glacial
action obtains throughout most of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia,
and Alaska, due in great part to the action of excessive moisture. Even
in southeastern Alaska, where the most extensive glaciers on the
continent are, the more evanescent of the tr... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Evening came on just as I got fairly within the portal of the main
amphitheater. It is about a mile wide, and a little less than two miles
long. The crumbling spurs and battlements of Red Mountain bound it on
the north, the somber, rudely sculptured precipices of Black Mountain
on the south, and a hacked, splintery _c... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The main lateral moraines that extend from the jaws of the amphitheater
into the Illilouette Basin are continued in straggling masses along the
walls of the amphitheater, while separate boulders, hundreds of tons in
weight, are left stranded here and there out in the middle of the
channel. Here, also, I observed a ser... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The sun gave birth to a network of sweet-voiced rills that ran
gracefully down the glacier, curling and swirling in their shining
channels, and cutting clear sections through the porous surface-ice
into the solid blue, where the structure of the glacier was beautifully
illustrated.
The series of small terminal moraine... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
CHAPTER III
THE SNOW
The first snow that whitens the Sierra, usually falls about the end of
October or early in November, to a depth of a few inches, after months
of the most charming Indian summer weather imaginable. But in a few
days, this light covering mostly melts from the slopes exposed to the
sun and causes b... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
One of the most striking effects of the snow on the mountains is the
burial of the rivers and small lakes.
As the snow fa’s in the river
A moment white, then lost forever,
sang Burns, in illustrating the fleeting character of human pleasure.
The first snowflakes that fall into the Sierra rivers vanish thus
suddenly; ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
All the small alpine pools and lakelets are in like manner obliterated
from the winter landscapes, either by being first frozen and then
covered by snow, or by being filled in by avalanches. The first
avalanche of the season shot into a lake basin may perhaps find the
surface frozen. Then there is a grand crashing of ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
SNOW-BANNERS
The most magnificent storm phenomenon I ever saw, surpassing in showy
grandeur the most imposing effects of clouds, floods, or avalanches,
was the peaks of the High Sierra, back of Yosemite Valley, decorated
with snow-banners. Many of the starry snow-flowers, out of which these
banners are made, fall befo... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
But afar on the lofty exposed peaks of the range standing so high in
the sky, the storm was expressing itself in still grander characters,
which I was soon to see in all their glory. I had long been anxious to
study some points in the structure of the ice-cone that is formed every
winter at the foot of the upper Yosem... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: KOLANA ROCK, HETCH-HETCHY VALLEY]
Glancing now in a general way at the formation of snow-banners, we find
that the main causes of the wondrous beauty and perfection of those we
have been contemplating were the favorable direction and great force of
the wind, the abundance of snow-dust, and the peculiar ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Early one bright morning in the middle of Indian summer, while the
glacier meadows were still crisp with frost crystals, I set out from
the foot of Mount Lyell, on my way down to Yosemite Valley, to
replenish my exhausted store of bread and tea. I had spent the past
summer, as many preceding ones, exploring the glaci... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Pursuing my lonely way down the valley, I turned again and again to
gaze on the glorious picture, throwing up my arms to inclose it as in a
frame. After long ages of growth in the darkness beneath the glaciers,
through sunshine and storms, it seemed now to be ready and waiting for
the elected artist, like yellow wheat... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
At length, toward the end of the second day, the Sierra Crown began to
come into view, and when we had fairly rounded the projecting headland
before mentioned, the whole picture stood revealed in the flush of the
alpenglow. Their enthusiasm was excited beyond bounds, and the more
impulsive of the two, a young Scotchma... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
My general plan was simply this: to scale the cañon, wall, cross over
to the eastern flank of the range, and then make my way southward to
the northern spurs of Mount Ritter in compliance with the intervening
topography; for to push on directly southward from camp through the
innumerable peaks and pinnacles that adorn... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
God’s glacial-mills grind slowly, but they have been kept in motion
long enough in California to grind sufficient soil for a glorious
abundance of life, though most of the grist has been carried to the
lowlands, leaving these high regions comparatively lean and bare; while
the post-glacial agents of erosion have not y... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Icy Ritter was still miles away, but I could proceed no farther that
night. I found a good campground on the rim of a glacier basin about
11,000 feet above the sea. A small lake nestles in the bottom of it,
from which I got water for my tea, and a storm-beaten thicket near by
furnished abundance of resiny fire-wood. S... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this
alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The
highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the
lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light,
streaming through many a notch and pass, fell t... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: GENERAL GRANT TREE, GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL PARK]
On the southern shore of a frozen lake, I encountered an extensive
field of hard, granular snow, up which I scampered in fine tone,
intending to follow it to its head, and cross the rocky spur against
which it leans, hoping thus to come direct upon the ba... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Descending the divide in a hesitating mood, I picked my way across the
yawning chasm at the foot, and climbed out upon the glacier. There were
no meadows now to cheer with their brave colors, nor could I hear the
dun-headed sparrows, whose cheery notes so often relieve the silence of
our highest mountains. The only so... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
When this final danger flashed upon me, I became nerve-shaken for the
first time since setting foot on the mountains, and my mind seemed to
fill with a stifling smoke. But this terrible eclipse lasted only a
moment, when life blazed forth again with preternatural clearness. I
seemed suddenly to become possessed of a n... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Westward, the general flank of the range is seen flowing sublimely away
from the sharp summits, in smooth undulations; a sea of huge gray
granite waves dotted with lakes and meadows, and fluted with stupendous
cañons that grow steadily deeper as they recede in the distance. Below
this gray region lies the dark forest ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Could we have been here to observe during the glacial period, we should
have overlooked a wrinkled ocean of ice as continuous as that now
covering the landscapes of Greenland; filling every valley and cañon
with only the tops of the fountain peaks rising darkly above the
rock-encumbered ice-waves like islets in a stor... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The inclination of the glacier is quite moderate at the head, and, as
the sun had softened the _névé_, I made safe and rapid progress,
running and sliding, and keeping up a sharp outlook for crevasses.
About half a mile from the head, there is an ice-cascade, where the
glacier pours over a sharp declivity and is shatt... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Darkness came on, but I found my way by the trends of the cañons and
the peaks projected against the sky. All excitement died with the
light, and then I was weary. But the joyful sound of the waterfall
across the lake was heard at last, and soon the stars were seen
reflected in the lake itself. Taking my bearings from... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
CHAPTER V
THE PASSES
The sustained grandeur of the High Sierra is strikingly illustrated by
the great height of the passes. Between latitude 36° 20′ and 38° the
lowest pass, gap, gorge, or notch of any kind cutting across the axis
of the range, as far as I have discovered, exceeds 9000 feet in height
above the level... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: MAP OF THE YOSEMITE VALLEY, SHOWING PRESENT RESERVATION
BOUNDARY.]
The Mono Pass lies to the east of Yosemite Valley, at the head of one
of the tributaries of the south fork of the Tuolumne. This is the best
known and most extensively traveled of all that exist in the High
Sierra. A trail was made throu... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
To the timid traveler, fresh from the sedimentary levels of the
lowlands, these highways, however picturesque and grand, seem terribly
forbidding—cold, dead, gloomy gashes in the bones of the mountains, and
of all Nature’s ways the ones to be most cautiously avoided. Yet they
are full of the finest and most telling ex... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
It is interesting to observe how surely the alp-crossing animals of
every kind fall into the same trails. The more rugged and inaccessible
the general character of the topography of any particular region, the
more surely will the trails of white men, Indians, bears, wild sheep,
etc., be found converging into the best ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The so-called practicable road-passes are simply those portions of the
range more degraded by glacial action than the adjacent portions, and
degraded in such a way as to leave the summits rounded, instead of
sharp; while the peaks, from the superior strength and hardness of
their rocks, or from more favorable position... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
A good bridle-path leads from Yosemite through many a grove and meadow
up to the head of the cañon, a distance of about thirty miles. Here the
scenery undergoes a sudden and startling condensation. Mountains, red,
gray, and black, rise close at hand on the right, whitened around their
bases with banks of enduring snow... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Red Lake is the lowest of the chain, and also the largest. It seems
rather dull and forbidding at first sight, lying motionless in its
deep, dark bed. The cañon wall rises sheer from the water’s edge on the
south, but on the opposite side there is sufficient space and sunshine
for a sedgy daisy garden, the center of w... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Below this point the climate is no longer arctic. Butterflies become
larger and more abundant, grasses with imposing spread of panicle wave
above your shoulders, and the summery drone of the bumblebee thickens
the air. The Dwarf Pine, the tree-mountaineer that climbs highest and
braves the coldest blasts, is found sca... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Hence, to the foot of the cañon, the metamorphic slates give place to
granite, whose nobler sculpture calls forth expressions of
corresponding beauty from the stream in passing over it,—bright trills
of rapids, booming notes of falls, solemn hushes of smooth-gliding
sheets, all chanting and blending in glorious harmon... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Moraine Lake furnishes an equally interesting example of a basin formed
wholly, or in part, by a terminal moraine dam curved across the path of
a stream between two lateral moraines.
At Moraine Lake the cañon proper terminates, although apparently
continued by the two lateral moraines of the vanished glacier. These
mo... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Recognizing the unsatisfiable longings of my Scotch Highland instincts,
he threw out some hints concerning Bloody Cañon, and advised me to
explore it. “I have never seen it myself,” he said, “for I never was so
unfortunate as to pass that way. But I have heard many a strange story
about it, and I warrant you will at l... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 |
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