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Butte, and rising up nearly 3,000 feet above the ragged 

 canon at their feet. 



Xo. 478. ARCHED Falls, directly under the Twin Buttes. The creek 

 abounds for nearly its whole length in falls, cascades, and 

 rapids. The above is in a deep, dark gorge, flowing over a 

 dike of basaltic rock, and under a natural archway thrown 

 out from the top to the bottom of the fall ; is about thirty 

 feet in height. 



No. 470. Falls near the head of Middle Creek, and at the foot of 

 the long cascade, shown in Xo. 41 of the 11 x 14 series. 



Xo. 480. View in Middle CREEK Caxon, showing its southern face. 



Xo. 481. View DOWN Middle Creek Caxon from same stand point. 



Xo. -182. Head of Middle Creek. A view showing the large amphi- 

 theater filled with snow, and from which Middle Greek finds 

 its sources. 



Xos. 483,484. View xear the mouth of West Gallatin Caxon. 

 A limestone mountain on the east side of the oafion, lying 

 directly upon the volcanic rocks, an exposed face bordering 

 the river, showing the line of junction. 



Xo. 485. The Palisades of the West Gallatin. Towering castel- 

 lated walls and pinnacles of granite rising to a height of i>, 000 

 feet above the river. 



Xo. 480. Trail over the rooks. 



So. 487. Trail through the woods of West Gallatin Canon. (See 

 Xos. 44 and 45, 11 x 14 series, page 30.) 



No. 488. Bluffs on the head of the West Gallatin, about GO miles above 

 the mouth of the canon. 



Xo. 480. Shadow Lake on the summit of the divide, between the West 

 Gallatin and the Yellowstone. Elevation above the sea 9,317 

 feet, and i,3'.V2 feet above the Yellowstone at Boteler's. 



The following views, from 400 to 500, inclusive, were made 

 by J. Chrissman, of Bo/.einan, Mont., who accompanied Pro- 

 fessor Hayden's division of the survey, and visited those local- 

 ities not reached by the photographers of the survey. 



Xos. 400, 401. Canon of the Upper Madison, between Gibbons's Fork 

 and the Fire Hole River. It is here a long series of swift cas- 

 cades, flowing between vertical walls of trachytic rock. 



Xos. 402, 403. Pulpit Bock, in one of the small side canons of the Mid- 

 dle Canon of the Madison. A detached mass of limestone 

 from the mountain side, about 150 feet in height, pulpit-like in 

 form. 



Xo. 404. A view ON the Madison below the Great Middle Canon. 



No. 405. A VIEW LOOKINO UP toward the Middle Canon from below. 



Xo. 400. Hydraulic mining in Alder Gulch, near Virginia City, Mont. 

 (Same as 100.) 



Xo. 407. Helena, MONT., capital of the Territory. A lively, thriving 

 city of about 5,000 inhabitants, sustained chiefly by the 

 mining operations carried on extensively all around. 



Xo. 498. Trout Creek Flume, carrying the water so necessary to the 

 miners, near Helena. 



Xo. 409. A Montana ranch, comfortable if not elegant, and the home of 

 many w r ell-to-do persons engaged in mining or stock-raising. 



Xo. 500. The successful hunter. Fred. Boteler, who accompanied 

 the survey as hunter, killed, within an area of fifty feet diame- 

 ter, five large elk, before breakfast. The view shows them 

 as they fell, with the hunter in the center of the group. The 



