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_ ‘The nut pines were now giving way to heavy timber, and there were 
ome immense pines on the bottom, around the roots of which the sun had 
‘melted away the snow; and here we made our camps and built huge fires. 
To-day we had travelled sixteen miles, and our elevation above the sea 
was 6,760 feet. . j : 
February Som te jb faces directly towards the main chain, we as- 
De. oO 
the steep hill 
aces lessened the’ 
of the animals the next morning. During the day several Indians joined 
1S On snow shoes. ' ‘oot i 
tance of dividing grennd between the two ridges, and beyond.an open ba- 
sin, some ten miles across, whose bottom presented a field of snow. At 
the further or western side rose the middle crest of the mountain, a dark- 
| of naked peaks, apparently destitute 
of the whole 
‘occupied in endeavoring to ascend the. 
seeeded. The animals, generally, not. 
