So you see those Indians who painted up old Big Chief Boulder were on the right track; they were deeply interested in it and its being there as a great and mysterious work of nature. They named it "Waukon," an Indian word meaning "mystery."
Oh, yes, and about boulders in art, it's the stone in the upper of the two pictures that Ruskin considers "massy and ponderous" and hence true to nature. Turner painted it.
CHAPTER VIII
(AUGUST)
In the parching August wind
Cornfields bow the head.
—Christina G. Rossetti.
Over the sea-like, pathless,
Limitless waste of the desert.
—Longfellow.