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the precious mineral. Across its face two long linos can be 

 traced : the upper, a wagon-road that has been constructed 



from the valley below to the very summit of Mount Lincoln, 

 via the low saddle which separates the two mountains. The 



lower line is the old u trail" that was traveled by hardy little 

 "jacks," laden with supplies for the miners going up, and 

 with sacks of ore going down. Away to the extreme left is 

 a portion of South Park, and in the distance on the right 

 the continuation of the range along its axis to the Buffalo 

 Peaks. 



No. SO is more to the west. The foreground is the contin- 

 uation from Bross to Lincoln. At the right are the buildings 

 of the .Montezuma nunc, only one hundred feet below the 

 summit, and the highest mine in the United States. In the 

 distance is the Sawatch Range, lying west of the Arkansas. 

 The prominent peaks in the range are Grand, Elbert, La 

 Platta, and Harvard, the highest mountains in the whole 

 Pocky Mountain Chain. 



In the next view, away in the distance, is a distant view of 

 the mountain ol the Holy Cross, (106). The dee]> amphithea- 

 ter at our feet is the head of Montgomery Culeh. Beyond, 

 in the middle distance, lies [Tennessee Pass. Around to the 

 north, in Nb. 82, the prominent point in the view is Quandary 

 Peak, a few feet only below Lincoln. Away in the distance 

 is the Blue River Range. No. 83, the tilth in the series, looks 

 down a spur of Lincoln, over .Montgomery, 3,500 feet below, 

 on the Platte, so far below as to be out of sight, across 

 Hoosier Pass, a continental divide, the highest point of which 

 is 1.1,364 feet above the sea. and so into the valley of the 

 Blue. In the distance on the horizon are Cray and Torrey's 

 Peaks. The last view of this series looks east, over South 

 Parle, Pike's Peak looming up grandly seventy -live miles 

 away. In the center is Silver Heels, a prominent peak from 

 the park, of 13,650 feet elevation. In the valley below is the 

 Platte River. Mowing down through Pairplay. about twelve 

 miles distant. At the foot of the spur of Mount Lincoln, 

 which forms the foreground, is the village of Quartzville, 

 barely discernible, situated just in the upper edge of the forest 

 growth. A great many miners climb up this peak every 

 day from the town. 

 Xos. 85-88. The Sawatch RANGE, a panoramic view in four sections, 

 embracing about 180 degrees, from a point a little south of 

 Weston's Pass. The elevation of tin 1 stand-point is 11,000 

 feet, or about 2,500 feet above the Arkansas River, just be- 

 low. Xo. 85 looks south to Buffalo Peaks, a well-known land- 

 mark, occupying the extreme southern end of the Park 

 Range. The next is of the Arkansas Valley, extending south- 

 ward as far as Poncho Pass. In the center is Mount Har- 

 vard, the highest in the Rocky Mountains. Xo. 87 looks west 

 across the Arkansas to the Twin Lakes, about ten miles 

 distant. Beyond them extends the valley or oafion of Lake 

 Creek up to Red Mountain Pass, on the summit of the range. 

 These lakes are in the trough or bed of an old glacier that 

 once filled the valley. On the right is an immense lateral 

 moraine bounding the lake on that side, and on the other is 

 another of less prominence. Upon either side are Libert and 



