But it is only to the northward that the entire range, from base to summit, is covered with lava.
From the summit of Mount Whitney only granite is seen.

Innumerable peaks and spires but little lower than its own storm-beaten crags rise in groups like forest-trees, in full view, segregated by canons of tremendous depth and ruggedness.

On Shasta nearly every feature in the vast view speaks of the old volcanic fires.

Far to the northward, in Oregon, the icy volcanoes of Mount Pitt and the Three Sisters rise above the dark evergreen woods.

Southward innumerable smaller craters and cones are distributed along the axis of the range and on each flank.