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some reason, either because of the nature of the materials, 

 or because of the greater severity and longer action of the 

 frost, the mountain tops here are broken into much smaller 

 fragments than any with which I am familiar in New Eng- 

 land, as, for instance, the summits of the Presidential Range 

 in the White Mountains. At 2.30 we reached a point at a 

 height of 3,000 feet, whence we could see the peaks toward 

 which we had been struggling, and which until now had 

 been hidden from us by the curving sides of Fall Mountain. 

 We could see now that there were two of them lying close 

 together. Between them, and between Fall Mountain and 

 the more easterly of them, was a bare valley at whose bottom 

 met the talus slopes from both sides. It rose to a high col 

 just between the peaks themselves, beyond which black, 

 jagged ridges were visible; and descended toward the south 

 into the Shenukatik. The western peak, which we afterward 

 named Mt. Faunce, lay almost directly north of us, most of 

 its lower portions hidden by the curve in Fall Mountain. 

 The eastern peak, to which we gave the name Mt. Eliot, was 

 higher, and descended southward in a long, gradual slope 

 down to the Shenukatik valley. In the latter we could see 

 a series of lakes lying beyond the one we had discovered 

 before. At its eastern end was a very picturesque grouping 

 of serrate and of round-topped mountains. 



The tops of our peaks were most of the time obscured 

 by fog. The day was turning out not so propitious as we 

 had hoped. We determined, however, to continue on our 

 way, for, if we could accomplish nothing more, we could at 

 least establish the height of the mountain. Mt. Eliot, as the 

 higher of the two, was the one we preferred to ascend. But 

 it lay farther off, the hour was late, and between us and it 



