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range, but with more dome-shaped tops, the peaks reared 

 up from five to seven thousand feet. The Glenlyons are 

 mostly granite, and the width of the ranges is about ten 

 miles. 



The wind had not yet swept off any of the snow that 

 had fallen during the storm, and walking along the top 

 was tedious. I noticed rabbit tracks on the very top, 

 and a few ground-squirrels were still out. I travelled all 

 day along the summits and over the peaks without seeing 

 a sign of sheep until five in the afternoon, when I saw 

 nine ewes and lambs, half a mile away, walking along 

 a crest extending in a north direction. While watching 

 them as they kept pausing to paw out the snow, sixteen 

 others suddenly came in sight, crossing a saddle toward 

 the south side of the mountain I was on. 



Wading through deep snow I climbed over the top 

 and going down on the other side to a point where I could 

 see the sheep found myself in plain sight as they were 

 approaching. It was too late to return, so I found some 

 rocks near, and crawling to them concealed myself and 

 watched the sheep. All were of the same color as the 

 sheep in the Pelly Mountains. They kept advancing, 

 now and then stopping to feed, until reaching the crest 

 they passed above me and soon were out of sight. They 

 crossed my trail without noticing it. After allowing time 

 for them to gain sufficient distance, I ascended to the 

 crest and observed their trail on the snow. The tracks 

 followed the crest two hundred yards and then led down 

 the mountain-side, almost directly above our camp. I 

 decided to kill, if possible, two two-year-old rams which 



