from coast to coast; nor was I aware that, instead of
being for the most part sloping plain, the thousand miles
that intervenes between Denver and the Pacific Ocean,
is made up of series after series of mountain ranges and
valleys, their successive crests and hollows following
one another like the waves of the sea.

In short, I had imagined that the Rockies were the
whole show, I had not the faintest recollection of the
Cordilleran System (of which the Rockies gad all these
other ranges are but a part), while as for the Sierra
Nevadas, I remembered them only when. I came to them
and then much as one will recall a slight acquaintance
who has been in jail for many years.

Are you shocked by my ignorance--or my confession
of it? Then let me ask you if you know that the Uintah
Mountain Range, in Utah, is the only range in the
entire country which runs east and west? And have
you ever heard of the Pequop Mountains, or the Cedar
Mountains, or the Santa Roasas, or the Egans, or the
Humboldts, or the Washoes, or the Gosiutes, or the
Toyales, or the Toquimas, or the Hot Creek Mountains?
And did you know that in California as well as
in New Hampshire there are the White Mountains?
And what do you know of the Wahsatch and Oquirrh
Ranges?

Not wishing to keep the class in geography after
school, I shall not tell you about all these mountains, but
will satisfy, myself with the statement that, in an amphi-
theater formed between the two last mentioned ranges,

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