MOUNT RAINIER 



into small points or knobs or arrowed with short and 

 narrow longitudinal lines in which snow lay. From 

 the snow on western border the Poyallipa arose, and 

 in its course down this rock slope was fenced into the 

 eastward by a regular elevation of the rock in the 

 form of a wall or dyke, which at the distance I viewed it 

 at, seemed about four feet high and four hundred yards 

 in length. Two large pyramids of rock arose from the 

 gentle acclivity at S. W. extremity of mountain, and 

 around each the drifting snow had accumulated in 

 large quantity, forming a basin apparently of great 

 depth. Here I also perceived, peeping from their 

 snowy covering, two lines of dyke similar to that al- 

 ready mentioned. 



Sept. 4. Am tonight encamped on a small eminence 

 near the commencement of prairie. Had a tedious 

 walk through the wood bordering Poyallip, but ac- 

 complished it in much shorter time than formerly. 

 Evening fine. 



Sept. 5. Nusqually. Reached Tekatat camp in 

 the forenoon and regaled on boiled elk and shallon. 

 Pushed on ahead with Lachalet and Quilliliash, and 

 arrived here in the evening, where all is well. 



