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very slightly from those already described? oy’ 
‘ovember 8.—The whole day? s journey was through a a cafion, and 
the river was crossed twelve or fifteen times, The sand was deep, 
and occasionally the trail ee by pebbles of paving- 
stone. The willow grew so densely in many places as to stop our — 
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Pboit two miles from camp, our course was traversed by a seam 
of yellowish colored igneous rock, specu oe up into irregular spire: 
and turrets, one or two thousan feet ; in height. It ran at right an- 
gles to the river, and extended to the solik, and to the’ south, in.a og 
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towers was capped with a substance, many hundred feet thick, , dis 
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= light yellow. Partially disintegrated, and laying 
Pres of a was a sotcing calcareous sané 
To the west, abouta mile below us, ie running we to 
first, is another similar seam, cut through by the Gila 
butte, shaped like a house. The top of this butte appe 
once formed the table Jand, and is still covered with veg 
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other means than rition. Where ae 
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