Excerpt from The Life of Lava Beds Medicine Lake, swirls of sulfurous fumes rose from volcanic vents, and retiring nocturnal crea tures were replaced by animals of the daylight. Far below, at the foot of the mountain, lay another lake, as yet unnamed by European man. Between the lakes was a realm of pine forest, shrubs, and bunchgrass, populated by rodents, hoofed mammals, predators, and many lesser animals. It was a land of violent change, with cinder cones and stark lava flows still bar ren of vegetation breaking the continuity of forest, brushland, and grassy plain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.