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| fantry ; so, having packed our provisions and other necessaries 
upon the mules, we severed our connection 
Nov. 22. ; ; 
with the wagons, and commenced our journey 
- through the gorge. The wagons, escorted by the infantry 
_ from Fort Goodwin, were obliged to retrace their steps and 
_ to travel southward to Nugent’s Pass, through which they 
_ were able to turn westward into the San Pedro valley, and to 
_ follow it down to Camp Grant. They had to travel 150 miles 
' to reach that point, whereas we were only thirty-four miles 
] distant from it at the head of the caiion. 
__ Never shall I forget the six days and five nights we spent 
in cutting our way through this wonderful defile ; and, 
though the remembrance of it cannot but be a vivid one, I 
: feel that it is quite impossible to give anything like a fair 
description of it. 
_ Guarding the narrow entrance rises a conic hill, to which 
we gave the name of ‘ Look-out Mountain,” for it commands 
_a very extensive view both into the cafion and up the cafiada, 
in the opposite direction ; furthermore, it is most probable 
‘that when this country was inhabited it was used for that 
“purpose, for the stone foundations of a building which 
7 formerly covered the summit are still distinctly visible. 
1 Close under this hill a very large spring gushes out ou the 
; ground, the waters of which more than double in size the 
1 Aravaypa stream. Without this large permanent supply of 
q running water the canon could probably never have been 
f formed. 
For the first two miles the walls are perpendicular on one 
_ side, and sloping on the other; the former do not exceed 500 
_ feet in height; but at the end of that distance a large triangular 
_ Mass juts up from the centre of the ravine, which seemed to 
us to bar all further progress. The stream, however, had 
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