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<br />M <br />N <br />en <br />N <br />o <br />o <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />But the river has not always been thus. <br />Eons ago, when the earth was yet young, <br />great oceans covered its surface, pounded <br />about by vicious storms, massive <br />earthquakes and the spilling of molten <br />lava from the center of the earth. As ages <br />passed, continents separated themselves, <br />mountains grew up from the depths, the <br />waters retreated and indIVidual seas formed. <br />One of these settled on what is now the <br />western slope of the Rockies. <br /> <br />5 <br />