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“The trail was an “excellent one for pack horses; ‘bat, as it sometime 3 
crossed a shelving point, to avoid the shrubbery we were oblig ed in severa 
is to open a road Yor the carria; through the wood. A squa w on horse- 
panied by five or six dogs, entered the pass in the afternoon; ; 
hs was too much terrified at sibiligat herself i in such crea Seierskoal 
nian, every eavaetctl! that affords ; any "adic 
: sarees vie animal thing, insect or worm, they eat. Nearly approach- 
_ ing to the lower animal creation, their sole employment is to obtain food; 
they are Soiimacely occupied in a struggle to support existence. = 
_» Tn the annexed view will be found a sketch of the Standing rock—the 
~~ most remarkable featureof the pass, where a huge rock, fallen from th® 
above, and standing perpendicularly near the middle of the iat 
sents itself like @ watch tower in the pass. Tt will give yon. tol 
ractegof the scenery in this country, whi 
mountains i “4 from com pram icahes sly un unbro 
delighted pltce i | enti ly pean all ing the 
‘in the re 
‘on the way, made the atloroorrotate! sho d about 
m the entrance we passed through another gate: and en- 
tream at the junction of a “Titele fork from the southw var 
mountains stooped more gen oly down, fo ling ; 
ees re Basit and myselt i in 
and Mr. Preuss other, set out to exy cote aula 
