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liant bloom. We reached the outletvat'length, aad some freshly barked 
willows that lay in the wa oe eect that_beaver had been recently at work. 
Sees Eng yea 
n squirrels jumping about in oo pines, and 2 
larc aks swimming about‘4n the st 
n end _were low, and the lake Vb kad hké a 
ode i ittle inland; aed, passing through groves of aspen, soon 
i bate aga among the pines. . Emerging orn these, we stragk 
she edge: above the upper-end of the la 
re had: / avery elevated point; and in tie alee below and 
mong the ‘hills, were a numberof lakes at different levels; some two or 
ditee hundred feet above others, with which they inuites nied by foam- 
ing torrents. Even to our great height, the roar of the cataracis came up, 
and we could seé them de* ine ‘down in lines of snowy fo oam. From this 
este of ee Bo ne we turned abruptly into the? stillness of a forest, 
where we rode mong the open bolls Of the pines, over a lawn of ¥ erdant. 
pass, ing. ‘stikivaly the air of cultivated grounds. . This led us, after 
me 1g masses of rock whielt had no vegetable ae but in hollows 
and cribs: though still the pine forest continued. Toward e ing, we 
Sechat 2 defile, or rather a hole in the mountains, dalirelt shut in by dark 
pil ered rocks. 
ti 
with a denis Peidie, whe ree flowed through a 
i of. perhaps eighty yards width, where the grass was saturated 
ee é our biyonac in the pines. The ees 
ae bers swpper- was being _ prepare’. I set o 
sion ih the nei ee one y ove of my men. 
vines until is. tichly repaid 
or ou le ta. ae of them in fall bloom 
ing ; we saw that the little 
ae ihn w h e lay communicated rt be Soe en valley of some 
: pe u ‘ eagle ie away to the south, 
ookin 7 
gradual slope, direc : 
we approached 
ange. Please 
haart down 
Our. table ‘sekv: 
and clean r 
which, from long consultation as 
e the highest of the 
fine a pecs ie the next day, we 
to the camp, Where we a ieee just in time for supper. 
ice was. rather. scant; pt we h el the meat in our h 
The oe 
ong 
_-ourlong Journ 
~ the camp. of this evenin 
us; the little jle throug ich we 
_ pines where we slept; ai the. rocks om a with: ‘the pres ‘of our fires, 
ight picture of very wild. beauty 
13.—The morning was bight and pleasant, j just cool enough 
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