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rest of the clay was warmer and more pleasant. At 12.20 the 

 temperature was 53°, and the barometer indicated a height 

 of 1,010 feet. 



On resuming our journey, we deserted the valley and 

 attacked the mountain to the north directly. First we scaled 

 a precipitous cliff at a break in its wall, then mounted over 

 a steep, soft talus of shale, and thus gained a considerable 

 level of smooth soil. Beyond the latter we climbed another 

 steep wall, crossed a plain of shale fragments, climbed along 

 a gradually mounting series of smooth, slanting rocks, gained 

 and passed over a long, ascending bank of snow with a pre- 

 cipitous drop at its right, then crossed a long series of small 

 serrate ridges, and finally attained the pinnacle of the pass, 

 2,150 feet above the sea. The summits that had become 

 familiar to us along our route thus far still towered above us, 

 probably to double our own elevation. Beyond, to the 

 north, lay a new series, extending as far as we could see. 



Our course next lay down through a wide valley, bare 

 and rocky, all ridges and huge loose boulders, with high, 

 bare-sided peaks rising out of it on all sides. Once we 

 passed a picturesque cascade, two separate bands of water 

 leaping over the upper rocks and then joining into one for 

 another plunge. Within an hour we had descended to> 1,580 

 feet, whence our work was alternately up and down over simi- 

 lar series of boulders. To these succeeded a short grassy 

 level. Then we climbed up diagonally over a great field of 

 snow, at whose base the boulders were flattened out into a 

 smooth floor like the one we had seen in the valley of the 

 morning. From the top of the snow drift we crossed a long 

 level, covered over with small fragments of sharp, broken 

 slate, at a height of about 1,400 feet. Beyond that a long, 



