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La Platta Peaks, the two next in height to Harvard. Id the 



last view, looking nearly north to Tennessee Pass, at the ex- 

 treme right, we see in the distance the Mount of the Holy 

 Cross, and at the left Grand or Massive Mountain, whose 

 height is 14,250 feet. Tennessee Pass is 10.101 feet above sea- 

 level. 



No. 99. Tin; OpPBB Twin Lake. Lake Creek rises in the heart of the 

 Sawateh Range, near Red Mountain Pass, and flowing down 

 a valley of wonderful glacial erosion, empties itself into the 

 Upper lake, then across a narrow neck which separates them 

 into the Lower Lake. The former is about oneanda half miles 

 long, and the last three miles in length. They are well stocked 

 with trout, and being surrounded by some of the grandest 

 mountain scenery in the Territory, are destined to become a 

 favorite pleasure-resort. A comfortable house of entertain- 

 ment is already established by the Messrs. Deny, who have 

 boats and other facilities for lake-tishing. (See No. 87.) 



No. 90. Mount HARVARD. A view looking south on the Arkansas 

 River, from a bluff 1,000 feet high, opposite the mouth of La 

 Platta Creek. Mount Harvard, lying in the range west of the 

 Arkansas, and latitude 38°.45, has an elevation of 1.4,319 feet, 

 the highest in the Pocky Mountains within the Hunts of the 

 United States. It was named by Prof. J. 1). Whitney, 

 who visited this region in 1869, in honor of the well-known 

 seat of learning in New England. Jn the distance beyond 

 are the spurs of Yale, its summit being obscured by a mass 

 of clouds. 



At the base of Harvard is a splended exhibition of enor- 

 mous glacial action, in the great lateral moraines that sweep 

 down to the bank of the river. 



No. 91. Moraines on La Plata Greek, A grand display of great 

 glacial power. Upon either side of the creek are two late- 

 ral moraines a half mile apart, three miles in length, and 

 averaging 500 feet in height, as regular as if plowed up by 

 Titans. The granite walls of the canon above are ground and 

 polished so smoothly as to glisten in the sunlight. Ages past 

 a glacier filled this canon live hundred to eight hundred feet 

 in depth, and twenty miles in length, discharging itself into 

 the valley of the Arkansas, as shown in this view, leaving 

 these mute witnesses to attest its ancient glory. 



All the canons along this range contain ample evidence of 

 the same tremendous force having been at work upon their 

 walls. 



Nos. 92-97. Panoramic view OVEB the summits of the Sawatch 

 RANGE, from the top of La Plata, at an elevation of 14,237 

 feet. The series is in six sections, em bracing the whole horizon. 

 La Plata lies in the center of the range, in the midst of 

 a vast wilderness of mountain peaks, and we look over their 

 summits as over the huge billows of a great sea. 



In approaching the mountain we are enabled to ride within 

 1,500 feet of the summit, the rest of the ascent being easily 

 accomplished on foot, the huge blocks of gneiss, of which the 

 mountain is composed, being so disposed as to afford excel- 

 lent footing, like a great stairway. 



Our first view is a little west of south, along the axis of the 

 range, over a great mass of mountain peaks. In this and the 



