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violated the law and one of the rangers of the reserve, whom we 
met a few days later, told us that two of the sheep owners had 
to answer before the courts for their trespasses. 
From Fish Lake we moved into the valley of Seven Mile 
Creek, camping at the base of Mt. Marvin. We climbed this 
mountain but found scarcely anything to collect, the upper half 
being bare rocks and large fields of broken lava. We intended 
to visit two other neighboring mountains, a were discouraged 
by the poor luck we had here, and proceeded to Richfield, the 
nearest railroad station. Here I took the train to Marysvale to 
settle our accounts 
The following day we took the train for Nephi, which is situ- 
ated near the foot of Mt. Nebo. Although the mountain is only a 
little over 12,000 feet, it seems much higher, rising abruptly from 
a valley not 5,000 feet above the sea. Knowing from experi- 
ence that the side facing the valley as a rule is much poorer bo- 
tanically than the opposite side, we secured a horse and buggy, 
drove about twelve miles around the southern end of the moun- 
tain and up into a cafion on the east side. We started the climb- 
ing of the mountain about eleven o’clock and Mr. Carlton reached 
the top about five o’clock P. M. I being in speaking distance 
below, asked him if he found anything of interest where 
His answer being that there were no plants different from fae 
where I was, we decided to return so that we could reach the 
bottom of the cafion before dark. We had climbed the moun- 
tain along some ridges, and now made the descent following a 
little stream; this soon entered a steep cafion, and made more 
han a dozen waterfalls from twenty to forty feet ae making 
the journey very perilous. A peculiarity of the flora of Mt. 
Nebo was that we did not find more than one truly signe plant, 
although the mountain reached more than a thousand feet above 
timber-line. The flora consisted mostly in species of Eriogonum, 
Erigeron, Artemisia, Lupinus, Macronema and other plants char- 
acteristic of the plains, foot-hills and lower mountains. Even the 
ge brush reached here an altitude of nearly 10,000 feet. 
As it now was very near the time when I had to return to 
New York, we did not think it advisable to undertake to visit 
