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for a couple of miles, where it was blocked by a group of 

 hills of considerable height. These we might pass either by 

 keeping close to the stream, flowing in a deep gorge to their 

 left, or by following up a secondary valley to a depression on 

 their right, connecting the hills with a flank of Mt. Ford. 

 At first we chose the former alternative, passing over a 

 gradually rising plain covered thickly with grass and moss. 

 But, after nearly reaching the base of the hills, we concluded 

 that we would probably gain by taking the pass to the right. 

 So we cut across in that direction, crossed a small brook, and 

 then went up onto a low shoulder of the hills; whence we 

 turned again north up the new valley, keeping on the slopes 

 some distance above the stream. At the head of the valley 

 was a steep, stony incline, rising to a narrow boulder-strewn 

 pass, a coJ between two peaks, low-lying offshoots from Mt. 

 Ford. 



We climbed the westward peak in order to get a survey 

 of our further route. Its height was 1,350 feet, its distance 

 from our starting point *about five miles. Behind us, the 

 Goratsuk valley stretched down to Nachvak Bay. In front, 

 the further slope of the col descended steeply as a short, stony 

 valley, debouching into the valley of the Shenukatik. The 

 latter lay stretched out to our right, separating Mt. Ford 

 from another, which, because of a prominent waterfall near 

 its base in the middle of the flank it presented toward us, we 

 afterward named Fall Mountain. This was broad and 

 rounded at the top. Above and beyond it rose two or three 

 snow-sprinkled and cloud-capped peaks, one of which we 

 hoped to climb ; though it was now evident that we could not 

 tell which would best serve our purpose without first ascend- 

 ing Fall. On the farther side of the Goratsuk, to the north- 



