1873 SERIES 



The following is from the American Journaljof Arts and Sciences, vol. 

 vi, December, 1873, and affords an excellent introduction to the series: 



United States Geological Survey of the Territories, F. V. Hoyden, Geolo- 

 gist in Charge. Photographs o/'lS73. — We have received an interesting 

 selection from the photographic views taken by Professor llaydeifs 

 survey in Colorado this summer, and hasten to lay before the readers 

 of the Journal some account of the operations of the survey in this de- 

 partment. 



The photographic work was this year again in the charge of Mr. \V. 

 II. Jackson, who has approved in previous campaigns his skill as a 

 workman, his enterprise and persistence as an explorer, and his good 

 judgment in the selection of his subjects. To his party were joined, 

 daring most of the summer, the collectors in natural history. They 

 began work near the end of May, about Long's Peak; tin 1 snow pre- 

 vented them from ascending the mountain itself SO early. Their views 

 of the peak, however, and of the beautiful little Bates Park at its foot, 



were very Successful. They then moved southward through the 'Front 



Range as far as dray's Peak, getting the whole panorama on the way, 



and taking from Gray's itself a connected series of views around the 

 horizon. The same was done again from Pike's Peak, to which the party 

 next moved, visiting on their way Chicago Lake. Pear Creek, the Platte 

 Canon, and the remarkable tracts of fantastically worn sandstone known 

 as Monument Park and the Garden of the Gods. Prom there they 

 traversed South Park, and. after again taking panoramic views from 

 Mount Lincoln, joined near Fairplay the party °' the chiefs of the sur- 

 vey, and accompanied them to Weston Pass. Twin Lakes, and other 

 points on the valley of the Arkansas, across the National Range and into 

 the Elk Mountains, and finally np the Arkansas and beyond its head- 

 Maters to the Mount of the Holy Cross, returning thence to Denver and 

 breaking np on the 5th of September. Panoramic views were taken 

 from La Plata Mountain, in the National Range, and from White Rock 

 Mountain, in the Elk group. 



The total number of views taken during the campaign is nearly 300, 

 half of them being stereoscopic, half the remainder 4 x 7-inch plates, anil 

 the rest the large 9 X 14-inch plates. They fairly cover the region tra- 

 versed, in its various aspects. The interests of science were especially 

 considered in the selection of subjects, and it was designed that the 

 panoramic views should combine, with the drawings of Mr. Holmes, the 

 artist of the survey, (drawings, it is believed, rarely equaled for their 

 comprehensiveness, minute accuracy, and artistic truth of expression,) 

 to make the reported facts thoroughly reliable, and to bring before the 

 apprehension of lovers of nature, whether for her beauty or her history, 

 the grand scenery of the grandest part of the Pocky Mountains. The 

 high panoramas will need, in part, to be judged by their intent to dis- 

 play the structure of regions which few have visited, or can expect to 

 visit. The lens is far behind the eye in its power to appreciate the dis- 

 tances in such views, and to discover the far off and faint. And while 



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