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west, the land rose in a series of remarkable terraces. These 

 were afterward discovered by Dr. Daly to be of glacial origin. 



From our lookout we descended across the col and then 

 crossed diagonally, up and down over low, outlying spurs of 

 Mt. Ford, in the direction of the waterfall. A few snow- 

 buntings flew about, and were the only signs of animal life. 

 We had here just the right mingling of rocks and vegetation 

 to make walking easy and rapid. We reached the river, 

 whose height at that point was 1,200 feet. Below us it 

 tumbled over rapids and through a narrow rocky bed. 

 Where we were, and for a long distance above, it spread out 

 wide and shallow, with an archipelago of small flat-topped 

 stones projecting just above its surface and lying so close 

 together as to form easy stepping-stones across. To our 

 right, at the eastern end of the valley, was a picturesque series 

 of jagged brown mountains. It was not far from there, over 

 slightly rising rocky ground, to the foot of the waterfall, 

 which we judged to be about two miles from our recent out- 

 look point. Here we stopped for half an hour for lunch. 

 The waterfall was just above us, dashing in one sweep down 

 about 250 feet, and thence in a series of little tumbles into a 

 pool of the clearest and greenest possible water. A little 

 further up the valley we could see a large lake, apparently 

 about a mile in length, so shallow in its middle portion that 

 a group of boulders projected above its surface. 



On resuming our journey, we crossed the brook and 

 scrambled straight up the cliffs for two or three hundred feet. 

 Then we climbed slowly, diagonally, toward the eastern end 

 of Fall Mountain, over steep, rocky slopes, a mass of frost- 

 hewn fragments of varied sizes. There were no large boul- 

 ders until we found a group of them near the end. For 



