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sand feet above the bay. On the west were two peaks, pre- 

 senting smoothly curving faces toward the valley. Their 

 great bases were somewhat convex vertically also, and were 

 distinctly marked by alternating strata of different material, 

 as if they were of sedimentary origin. At the head of the 

 valley was another peak, similar to those on the west. 



We passed through the level plain, by a couple of small 

 lakes, and then climbed slowly up the valley. Our way was 

 sometimes over moss and soil, but more often over broken 

 heaps of rocks of all sizes, piled in confused masses. At the 

 height of 980 feet we reached a very peculiar formation. 

 Between low cliff walls, thirty or forty feet apart, a smooth 

 floor of flat-topped, level boulders had been formed, descend- 

 ing in a series of terraces for two or three hundred feet. It 

 was doubtless formed by the pressure of slowly moving ice 

 constrained within rigid walls. The surface was as flat and 

 almost as compact as that of a macadamized road. A little 

 beyond it the valley, which had been trending true north and 

 south, turned sharply to the right. Just beyond the curve 

 we stopped for lunch, about seven miles from our starting 

 fKDint. 



Our surroundings were marvelously beautiful. All 

 about us towered the massive bare cliffs of the mountains. 

 At the bend of the valley a foaming stream of water de- 

 scended in almost vertical falls and rapids from a height far 

 above. Another stream came down the upper stretch of the 

 valley into which we had turned. At our feet lay a deep, 

 clear pool, fed from a snowbank lying between narrow walls 

 of rock. Here we were well sheltered from the wind, which 

 had been strong and chilling all the morning. While we 

 were lunching the sky cleared and the sun came out, and the 



