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feral. It is from the precipitous sides of the canon, as 

 Shown on the left that the frequent avalanches or snow-slides 

 occur, with such fatal results to those who may be caught by 

 them. 



No. 387. Granite Peak, Little Cottonwood Canon, about half 

 way down. It rises nearly 3,000 feet above the creek at its 

 foot, and is a solid mass of the beautiful granite characteristic 

 of the canon. 



No. 388. QUARRYING granite in Cottonwood Canon, seventeen miles 

 south of Salt Lake City, for the .Mormon Tabernacle. The 

 ground is completely strewn with immense bowlders and 

 detached masses of granite, which have fallen down from the 

 walls of the canon on either side, some of which are from thirty 

 to forty feet square. All the quarrying is confined to splitting 

 up these blocks. 



N'os. 389, 300. View of the Wasatch Mountains from the Twin 

 Peaks to the spur that separates Salt Lake from Utah Lake. 

 The Twin Peaks fall but a little short of being the highest in 

 the range, being not far from 12,000 feet above the sea. 



No. 391. Two young cinnamon rears, about two months old, cap- 

 tured in the mountains nearOgden. 



No. 392. Point OF the mountain, ton miles north of Salt Lake City, 

 near the Hot Sulphur Springs. 



Xo. 393. Willard Canon, in the above spur of the Wasatch Moun- 

 tains. 



No. 391. Willard City, fifteen miles north from Salt Lake, a Mormon 

 village of some 900 souls. Over the village a glimpse of 

 Bear River Bay, of Salt Lake, is had. 



No. 395. Bear River Hotel and BRIDGE, the crossing, on the line of 

 the old stage-line from Ogden to Montana. 



Nos. 390, 397. Panoramic view of Malade, Utah, from the bluffs back 

 of the town, looking south down the valley; a Mormon settle- 

 ment of about 1,200 inhabitants. 



Nos. 398, 399. Portneue Canon, Idaho, looking down from the great 

 bend, about midway in the canon. (See No. 175, page 23.) 



Nos. 400, 401. Portneue Canon, looking up from same stand-point. 



No. 402. Portneue Mountains, lying to the east of the canon. They 

 are covered with a thick mantle of snow, which fell during 

 the night of the I'd of .Inly. 



No. 403. Crater ruttes, or extinct volcanoes, on Henry's Fork, near 

 its junction with Snake River. They are prominent laud- 

 marks for many miles along the line of the stage-road. The 

 larger one of the two, as shown in one view, rises about 500 

 feet above the plain, upon a base about one and a half miles 

 in diameter. Its crater is about half a mile in diameter, and 

 one hundred and fifty feet deep. 



No. 404. Kenilwoktii Castle, a mass of volcanic sandstone, lying 

 near the base of the butte, that has been washed away to its 

 present form ; is about fifty feet high and one hundred long. 



No. 405. A group of cottonwoods on the middle fork of the Telon 

 River, in the Teton Basin. 



No. 406. Permanent camp of the SURVEY during the exploration of 

 the Teton Range, situated at the foot of the main canon that 

 comes down from the Three Tetons, and distant in an airline 

 about ten miles from them. Elevation of cam]). 0,010 feet. 



Nos. 107, 408. A panoramic view in the Teton Range, from a point 



