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the mountain chain whose circle toward the west forms the 
southern mountain barrier which encloses the San Luis park in 
that direction. 
The San Luis park is then an immense elliptical bowl, the 
bed of a primeval sea which has been drained; its bottom, 
smooth as a water surface and concave, is 9,400 square miles in 
area. It is watered by thirty-five mountain streams, which, de- 
Snow alone are seen. To one who ascends to this elevation at 
any point, the whole interior of this prodigious amphitheatre 
'Sscanned by the eye and swept in atasingle glance. Aided 
by a glass, the smallest objects scattered over the immense ellip- 
