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a sleepless night, in which one of our tents had been whipped into 

 pieces and the camp otherwise badly wrecked by the storm. We 

 gathered such possessions as notebooks, artist's equipment, the group 

 model and other things most essential to the completion of our work 

 and started through a drizzling rain at daybreak. We arrived at the 

 Inn thoroughly soaked, but with the most essential results of the ex- 

 pedition intact. 



The heather, mosses, saxifrage and other plants, common to the 

 moraine, were gathered together and preserved for accessories in the 



FiG. 43. — The timber line on the south slope of Xisquallv Vallev. Altitude 



6,500 feet. 



foreground of the completed group. Two gnarled and twisted trees, 

 similar to those shown in figure 43, were also obtained from the timber 

 line and a large amount of rock from the moraine of the glacier and 

 from the basalt slope which lies alongside the moraine. This, together 

 with all the other required material, was transported to the railroad at 

 Ashford. 



Geological collections, consisting of the various rocks and minerals 

 found in that section of the park were also made, and as far as possible, 

 the chronological order of the various outflows of lava represented in 



