Standing atop a continental divide makes waters visibly part toward two oceans

Evidence

From the summit were seen in unrivalled combination all the views which had rejoiced our eyes during the ascent. It was something at last to stand upon the storm-rent crown of this lonely sentinel of the Rocky Range, on one of the mightiest of the vertebrae of the backbone of the North American continent, and to see the waters start for both oceans. Uplifted above love and hate and storms of passion, calm amidst the eternal silences, fanned by zephyrs and bathed in living blue, peace rested for that one bright day on the Peak, as if it were some region Where falls not rain, or hail, or any snow, Or ever wind blows loudly. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 256

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• ADDENDUM: The continental-divide vantage from the Peak resonates with the ‘Grafting & Growth’ essay’s concern with living landscape as infrastructure — the watershed here visibly splits toward both oceans.