Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 55.djvu/318

This page has been validated.
304
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

have a marked influence in dissipating the winter's snows and ice when these are not particularly heavy, I did not find the August heat quite so intense on the mountain tops as I had been led to

The Vale of Colorado.

suppose that it would be, but there was quite enough of it to satisfy an ample vegetation and to make heavy garments in walking more than a luxury. Unfortunately, my thermometer was away from me at this time, and as sensation in this dry northern climate is so