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distance to Tuquoroma might be too great to permit 

 of our returning thither the same night, I had had a few 

 things brought hither during the day, and finding they 

 had arrived, we encamped under the shelter of some 

 enormous boulders (at 13,500 feet), part of an ancient 

 moraine, which extended some distance along the bed of 

 the narrow valley. Except an excruciating headache, I 

 felt no ill effects from my ascent ; and after a supper of tea 

 and biscuit, I slept soundly. 



On the following morning the temperature was 28° at 

 6 '30' a.m., and rose to 30° when the sun appeared 

 over the mountains at 8'1 5', at which time the black 

 bulb thermometer suddenly mounted to 112°, upwards of 

 80° above the temperature of the air. The sky was 

 brilliantly clear, with a very dry, cold, north wind blowing 

 down the snowy valley of the pass. 



DKMON S HEAD. 



