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Updated: May 22, 2025
The man addressed stepped forward, thrust the implement into the opening, and drew out another stone, when, as the American had suggested, a second serpent came gliding out, to meet its death quickly and be tossed by one of the men over the parapet-like wall into the river.
Before them the plateau stretched a mile or more, wind-swept, sun-drenched, with an indescribable bold look of great altitude; but close to them at one side ran a parapet-like line of tumbled rock and beyond this a sheer descent. The eye leaped down abrupt slopes of forest to the valley they had left, now a thousand feet below them, jewel-like with mystic blues and greens, tremulous with heat.
From the points of structure in the central ridge, now enumerated, namely, from the convergence towards it of the beds of the upper series, from the lavas there becoming highly cellular, from the flat ledge, extending along its inner and precipitous side, like that within some still active craters, from the parapet-like wall on its summit, and lastly, from its peculiar curvature, unlike that of any common line of elevation, I cannot doubt that this curved ridge forms the last remnant of a great crater.
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