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ing the camp outfit and supplies, left Telegraph Creek August 

 1 6, reaching Shesley, a Government telegraph station, on the 

 headwaters of Shesley River, forty-five miles distant, on the 

 1 9th. A part of the supplies were left here and a trip made 

 into the Shesley Mountains, for large game. Four Mountain 

 Gpats were killed en route, but fell into inaccessible places and 

 were lost. "On the afternoon of August 22," continues Mr. 

 Stone in his MS. report, "camp was pitched among some low 

 balsams, just at the upper edge of timber-line, after having 

 travelled a swampy mountain plain all day. Confronting us 

 in every direction were very rugged mountains, cut by deep 

 canons. To secure goats and sheep was the special object of 

 this hunt, but after the first three sheep were taken I decided 

 that the coat was yet too short for mountable specimens, and 

 did not try for any more. Four splendid specimens of goats 

 were secured, one Black Bear and a Grizzly mother and her 

 cub." Also about 140 small mammals were taken on the 

 Shesley trip. 



The camp at the head of Shesley River is described by Mr. 

 Anderson as "situated at timber-line on the side of a moun- 

 tain, which, rising above us, formed a plateau barren of 

 vegetation, except for a few lichens and here and there a 

 little bunch grass. The side where we were camped, how- 

 ever, had considerable grass where there were depressions that 

 gathered moisture or where little streams ran. Below us on 

 the side away from the plateau ran a considerable glacier 

 stream in a deep canon. Between the plateau and the high 

 snow-covered mountains from which this stream ran, there 

 was a broad valley through which flowed another glacier 

 stream to join the first. The valley was^broken into innum- 

 erable hills and knolls, among which were small lakes. The 

 timber here consisted of scrubby balsam fir, with here and 

 there a pine. Willows and other shrubs were abundant in 

 the broad valley, but the ground was largely covered with 

 mosses and lichens, and bunch grass grew in the dry places." 



The party later returned to Shesley, and on September 6 

 started for Level Mountain, some fifty miles further on, and 

 about one hundred miles southeast of Telegraph Creek. At 



