Principles of Physics or Natural Philosophy, 1861, Image 38

it, then since we consider it nearer we consider it smaller though the picture upon the retina is exactly the same as when near the horizon. By fire, [Sketch: Div [divide] of main Can [canyon], Top 1000 ft [feet] from bot [bottom] cascade, ice ascended 4 or 5° [degrees] in [going] out, [Dead] Lake] Head main can [canyon] blocked by 2? Or 5 domes 18 The glacial period is called a winter & so it was to the ground but it was a summer to the sky for when did clouds first so [profoundly] when so grand a [flowing of the] development of the flowers of snow All [that] we call destructive in nature is also creation. Endings also beginnings. The glac [glacial] period destroyed plants & animals that were not wanted but behold the hosts of mtns [mountains] & [plans/plains] that were born. As avalanches sweep gaps through the forests making a clean page for another writing, So in a more universal way did the ice [wake] all ? the page of the world for a new [beginning] [not] only in plant & animal life but in rocks & lakes in all physical forms. Thus nature is ever completing ever beginning, Lakes grow old & die like men, so do mtns [mountains] so do continents by water by ice.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmn-ppnp/1037/thumbnail.jp