Their summits are never free from snow the year round.

One thing about it is very strange: it never has even a skim of ice upon its surface, although lakes in the same range of mountains, lying in a lower and warmer temperature, freeze over in winter.
It is cheerful to meet a shipmate in these out-of-the-way places and compare notes with him.

We have found one of ours here--an old soldier of the war, who is seeking bloodless adventures and rest from his campaigns in these sunny lands .-- [Colonel J.

HERON FOSTER, editor of a Pittsburgh journal, and a most estimable gentleman.

As these sheets are being prepared for the press I am pained to learn of his decease shortly after his return home--M.T.].