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THE QUlET SOLITUDE OF DEATH VALLEY -' OON-the middle of an endless day on this endless plain from which few escape. The sand, gritty, glittering, blinding to the traveler, ever-shifting, disturbs the mind of the sanest of men. The i everlasting stillness, almost frightening in its vast, grasping domains, weakens the strongest of hearts. The vulture sits on the peak of some barren rock that overlooks the entire country. He,'who is as venomous as a rattler, watches for the slightest movement or sign of life. A vulture is the final knell of the death-bell, tolling continuously on this life-taking plain. The heat in the middle of this endless day is terrible to encounter, dry -so dry it shrivels the skin, parching the throat, makes one mad from lack of water. It shrivels and curls the toughest of the everlastingly gray cactus, which in its own silent, majestic way reminds one of grave, silent, tall tombstones of the dead on this sun baked desert. One shivers when he notices a pile of bleached, sun-whitened bones, suggestive of those long dead. The trail is in reality the ruts from wheels of unknown wagon trains. It lies half buried under the ever shifting sands, winding-a tale of countless 2lgCS. 1 r 1 Joan Steep, A9 One Hundred Fifty 'three
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