Storm King Mountain
"The tallest mountain is ... looked upon as the most sure foreteller of a storm. When the white cloud-beard descends upon his breast in the morning ... there is sure to be a rain-storm before night. Standing aloft before other mountains in the chain, this sign is peculiar to him. He seems the monarch, and this seems his stately ordering of a change in the weather. Should not STORM-KING, then, be his proper title?"
Storm King on the Hudson, painted by Homer Dodge Martin in 1862, depicts Storm King Mountain near Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_King_Mountain_(New_York) |
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