The report of his musket in this lofty region was so slight as to be heard but a short distance, but the birds, soaring aloft, screamed with fear and went still higher up the mountain sides.
Here they found squirrels more abundant than in the valley.

The oaks and hickory trees bore an abundance of nuts for them.

Further on the nut-bearing trees gave place to grass, and they found themselves on a sloping plain.
Every hour seemed bringing them to new and unexplored regions.

Old Snow-Top, as they called the mountain, contained wonders.

The trees had dwindled to dwarfs, and the animals degenerated in proportion.