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EN A and either from necassitty ot shaken faith, they left oral six years: 
ago the home of their fathers, and joined another 
rom. Bose springs we went that afternoon six vets overa ied moun. 
tainous r to Cottonwood branch, a small valley amidst high mountains,’ 
where oat maple (Negundo fraxinifolia >) common and bitter re { 
(Lopulus Canadensis and angustifolia) grow, surrounded by: pine tre 
This is the highest point on the Santa Fe road;a es to my barometr- 
| measurements, it is 7,250 feet above the level of the 
June 29.—Trayelled in-the forenoon eight miles over onvioe road; th 
2 narrow valley, or rather a cafion with a ravine running t 
halted at noon on a clear mountain stream. From C 
whi 
ish, striped, and s Sneremerstomp anes looser and coarse eee some- 
times finer and very compact. ‘The strata were generally horizontal, 
except near our noon po where they seemed to have been uplifted from. 
southwest to northeast, Im an. ‘ert of nearly 100 degrees. From our 
noon camp the caravan started through another: caiton about six miles 
long, while I preferred, for better ee of the country, to ride over 
a mountain path, that cut off several miles. ‘This mountain path was ex- 
tremely steep, and strewed all over with blocks of granite and some gneiss. - 
This is the first place on the Santa Fe road where I found the granite un- 
doubtedly in situ. Qn Rio Peces, and some other localities, the cranite was 
always in a decomposed and conglomerate state, and was most likely trans- 
ported there in the course of centuries by the yearly risings of theriver. But 
here [ stood upon firm granite ground, ee up from the bowels of the earth’ 
in one of the grand revolutions which, in time immemorial, have changed | 
the nature of our globe. ‘This _— papa th extends without interrup- 
tion from here to Santa Fe. At the highest point of the road isa small 
Plata wath good grass, and.a — view over the mountains. Many wooden 
crosses are here erected upon heaps of granite rocks—a sign that man 
travellers, me met here with an untimely grave by the hand of robbers. 
Descending again, 1 reached the common wagon road on the other end 
of the canon, an a for the wagons, _— soon afterwards arrived 
ing ua to molest the eg through the whole len aes 
attle 
rove the whole army. 
June 30.—In the morning we travelled six failed over a sandy and 
gravelly road, surrounded, as usual, by thick pine timber, and halted at a 
small ts From here Santa Fe i s but fi miles ene. Ridin, d 
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