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was a deep valley into which we would first have to descend. 

 We could not yet see what would be the conditions in at- 

 tempting the other. So, before deciding on our final plans, 

 we moved on a little further, rounding the obstructing curve, 

 until we stood near the edge of a precipice that dropped 

 abruptly into the valley far below us. Here we could see 

 that it would be a matter of great difficulty to get down into 

 and across the valley to Mt. Eliot ; but that Mt. Faunce was 

 connected with Fall Mountain by a very sharp and narrow 

 bridge-like neck lying but very little below the summit of 

 the latter, and still above us. This decided us to select Mt. 

 Faunce as our objective point. It turned out later that this 

 was much the wiser plan; for from the slightly lower peak 

 we were able to estimate closely the height of the other ; the 

 view we obtained from the summit was without doubt very 

 similar and in no way inferior; and had we taken the more 

 distant one we would have been left at dark far from home, 

 with no protection from the coldness of the night, and in a 

 country where it would have been highly dangerous to con- 

 tinue walking in the darkness to keep warm. 



It was now about 3 o'clock. We climbed up steeply 

 over the boulders on the projecting shoulder of Fall Moun- 

 tain, around its summit, and onto the narrow bridge to Mt. 

 Faunce. The height here was 3,400 feet, and the summit 

 of Fall was not more than a hundred feet higher. Thence 

 we went up a series of not very dil^cult slopes along an ex- 

 ceedingly narrow ridge that fell almost perpendicularly on 

 the west into a deep valley 2,000 feet below, and on the east 

 in sharp talus heaps to the valley separating it from Mt. 

 Eliot. The surface was of finely broken stone. Very little 

 scattered vegetation grew on it, and this was almost exclu- 



