Identifier: burtonholmest19086holm (find matches)
Title: Burton Holmes travelogues
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, 1870-1958
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: New York : McClure Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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m an inch in heightthe water labors for a space of sixty days. The tinting iscaused by mineral substances brought with the waters fromthe inner earth. But why seek to explain this seemingmiracle ? It is enough that after years of toil the silentforces will produce a thing of such enchanting beauty thatmans desire to investigate is lost in ecstasy of admiration.It is enough for us that these yellows, browns, and purplesare harmoniously blended ; that the still warm pools arebluer than the fairest sky or deepest sea ; that every line andcurve is to the eye as soft as a caress — it is enough that wehave felt the thrill born of the contemplation of the beau-tiful. What care we for calcareous deposits, evaporations,sulphur stains, and iron oxides? Away with them. Even Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom, whose name one ter-race bears, here bids us admire rather than seek to under-stand. Nor is Minerva the only mythical deity honored here ;the name of Jupiter, the Father of the Gods, now dignifies
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