Health, Wealth, and Pleasure in Colorado and New Mexico.. This item is unavailable.Health, Wealth, and Pleasure in Colorado and New Mexico.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. ...the summer months there is an almost constant round of church and society picnics and private pleasure parties coming down to the lakes from Leadville, so that nearly every day brings a fresh influx of visitors, enlivening the resort, and dispelling all tendency to monotony. Twin Lakes is the highest of all the popular Rocky Mountain resorts, and furnishes an unfailing antidote for hot weather. Even in midsummer flannels are necessary articles of apparel, and thick woolen blankets indispensable at night. The latter part of July and a part of August constitute the rainy season, when there is usually a shower every day, preceded and succeeded immediately by a clear sky and bright sunshine. The waters are always too cool for bathing, except in the case of robust people. The temperature of the lakes suggests their origin, for they are undoubtedly the result of immense glaciers that once reached from the canons and gorges of the neighboring peaks far down the valley, carrying vast quantities of broken and disintegrated rock, and depositing it in long moraines, that constitute the hills which now, with their covering of pines, interpose to isolate the lakes from the narrow meadows along the Arkansas. To the student of geology these evidences of glacial action afford an unfailing source of interest. Prof. Hayden, in his report of the United States geological survey of Colorado, devotes several pages, illustrated by maps and charts, to a description of the moraines in this vicinity. Although the glaciers have long since melted away, it is not uncommon in climbing among the mountain gorges, late in summer, to find great masses of snow, resulting from avalanches that came down from the mountain sides during the winter and spring. In consequence of...