These dead trees fall in turn, thus making a clearing, while sediments gradually accumulate changing the pond into a bog, or meadow, for a growth of carices and sphagnum.

这些枯树依次倒下，从而形成空地，而沉积物逐渐积累，将池塘变成沼泽或草地，用于鲤鱼和泥炭藓的生长。

White dashing water, a few bushes and tufts of carex on ledges leaning over with fine effect, and large orange lilies assembled in superb groups on fertile soil-beds beside the pools.

白色汹涌的水流，一些灌木丛和几簇苔藓植物在倾斜的边缘上产生了很好的效果，大片的橙色百合在池边肥沃的土壤床上成群结队地聚集在一起。

The lakelets, which a few miles down the valley were so richly embroidered with flowery meadows, had here, at an elevation of 10,000 feet, only small brown mats of carex, leaving bare rocks around more than half their shores.

沿着山谷向下几英里处的小湖上长满了繁花似锦的草地，而在海拔 10,000 英尺的地方，这里只有棕色的苔藓小垫，一半以上的湖岸周围都是光秃秃的岩石。

The small lakes which a few miles down the Valley are so richly bordered with flowery meadows have at an elevation of 10,000 feet only small brown mats of carex, leaving bare rocks around more than half their shores.

沿着山谷向下几英里的小湖泊周围都是鲜花盛开的草地，在海拔 10,000 英尺的地方只有一小片棕色的苔藓，一半以上的湖岸周围都是光秃秃的岩石。