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Range. It axis is parallel with that of the Park Range, and 
only about sixteen miles west of it. It ends abruptly, about 
40 miles northwest of Mt. Lincoln, in a very impressive peak, 
about 18,400 feet high, called the Mount of the Holy Cross, 
This steep-sided cone with rounded top fronts the east in a 
dark precipice 8000 feet high, in the center of which is a bril- 
Front Range. After tremendous labor,* Mr. Jackson suc- 
ceeded in obtaining admirable photographic views of the preci- 
pice and cross, from a distance not exceeding a mile. 
The highest part of the National Range commences about 
20 miles south of the Holy Cross, in Grand Mountain, opposite 
the town of Oro, in the Arkansas Valley. Grand Mt. is about 
14,200 feet high, and from here to 50 miles farther south the 
whole range is elevated to 18,000 feet, while there are ten peaks 
that rise above 14,000 feet, some of them doubtless reaching 
14,400. These culminating points rise at intervals of five to 
eight miles along the crest of the range. The one next south 
of Grand Mt. is Mt. Elbert; the next is La Plata Mt. ; then 
Prof. J. D. Whitney in 1869 Mt. 
The National Range is one of the grandest on the continent. 
Through nearly its whole extent it forms the divide between 
nearly parallel with the National Range, and some 35 miles 
west of it. At the northern end of this line of elevation, mn 
lat. 39° 15’ N,, is Sopris Mt., a long dome-shaped ridge, about 
13,000 feet high. Ten miles to the south of it is a sharp cone, 
©vertopping all its neighbors, and rising to about 14,100 feet ; 
this we have named the Capitol. Three miles further south is 
another great peak, only about 50 feet lower, which we call the 
*Mr. Jack : e packer, carried 100 Ibs. of 
— hic sn Ba ingly ebro ‘and Fallen timber and up 4000 
steepest débris slope. 
