Mountains, earliest arrivals in the mountain world, 9; origin of bald mountains, 26; Muir on the marvellous mountain sculpture of the snowflakes, 37; how mountain peaks are kept sharp, 43; rain-drops as mountain sculptors, 67; mountains and the origin of river valleys, 69; and the birth of partly grown rivers, 72; mountain streams and their waterfalls, 77; storm chorus of the mountain torrents, 78; how mountain lakes and baby rivers go to sleep together and the liveliness of the rivers afterward, 80; how mountains help make the water gates, 86; why growing mountains make earthquakes, 86; why almost all granite is found in mountain regions, 97; the different kinds of mountains, 115; why mountains border the sea, 134; why they run north and south, 137; why sea waves rise to greet the mountains, 139; Ruskin on mountain drawing, 140; resemblance of mountains to sea waves, 140; how mountains helped solve the mystery of the stones of the field, 151; sunrise in the Atlas Mountains, 163; why desert mountains look so gaunt and hungry, 164; why the desert winds are constantly blowing them away, 171; mountain shapes and the law of the picturesque in Nature's art work, 229; how the mountain chains are the making of Europe, 230; their ups and downs, 230; why the markings in marble tell the story of mountain building, 237; and of mountain shaking, 239; ancient weather records on mountain walls, 248 Mountain lakes, the blue lake in the volcano's mouth, 195; why mountain lake storms are particularly dangerous, 202; and why they are apt to come at night, 202 Mountain meadows, how rapidly their flowers follow the snow, 44 Mount Fujiyama, its striking resemblance to a mountain 3,000 miles away, 124 Mount Hermon, its spring that gives birth to the Jordan, 73 Mount McKinley, remarkable snap-shot of one of its avalanches, 63 Mount Pelée, its discharge of huge rocks and whirling bombs, 129; the mysterious shaft that rose and fell, 132 Mount Ritter, its resemblance to the sacred mountain of Japan, 124 Mount Shasta, how it gives birth to a river that has no babyhood, 73; how the mountain itself was born at the crossroads and why this is apt to happen in the case of volcanic mountains, 127 Mount Vesuvius, why, like other active volcanoes, it seems to smoke but doesn't, 126, 127 Mount Washington, its interesting colony of descendants of butterfly pilgrims of the Ice Age who missed the train, 48 Muir, John, on the wonderful team work of the snowflakes, in the Ice Age, 37; on the liveliness of mountain streams after a little nap in mountain lakes, 80; on the winter sleep of the mountain lakes and their glad awakening in the spring, 198 Natural bridges, various ways in which they are made by the very streams they bridge, 83, 85