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“Weary, after a long ride over many a rugged height,
and heated by breathing the dry atmosphere of moun-
tain and plain, at three o’clock on a hot afternoon | first
drank from the deep, clear, bubbling spring to which
Indians gave the name ‘Manitou.’ It was

‘Sweet as the desert fountain’s wave

To lips just cooled in time to save.’
Properly enough, the most valuable offerings that red
men offered to Deity were here deposited. Even yet
arrow-heads and beads and Indian trinkets are forced
upward by the boiling waters and found in the stream
below. It was a proper place, at the foot of the impe-
rial mountain, to do reverence to nature’s God; and if
purity of atmosphere, beauty in nature, and sublimity
of wild mountain scenery may direct men’s thoughts
through nature up to nature’s God, there is absolute
faultlessness in every incident of earth, air and heaven
to make this the spot on which man should bow in
humble adoration of God’s glory and omnipotence.”

Another delightful trip from Manitou is to Bergen’s
Park, which is also thus interestingly described by
Grace Greenwood in her correspondence to the New
York Zimes: |

“We lately spent two delightful days in Bergen’s Park,

which delightful retreat lies about 1,000 feet higher than.

Manitou, and is reached by a charming drive of seven-
teen or eighteen miles up the wild Ute Pass. We

were the guests of an English gentleman of good fam-

ily and a graduate of Cambridge, but quite content with
this rough, secluded life, and proud to be a ranchman.

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