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next view to the left, No. 9.5. arc seen the amphitheaters, or 

 heads of the canons, flowing either way, those on the right 

 into the Pacific and those on the left into the Atlantic. In 

 them originated the great glaciers. To the right, in No. 94, 

 we have another glimpse Of Mount Harvard, somewhat dimly, 

 as it was obscured by a storm. On the left are the Buffalo 

 Teaks, and a little to the right of them is Pike's Peak, nearly 

 a hundred miles away. In the following view we look down 

 across the month of Lake (reek Canons', on the Arkansas, to 

 the range about Mount Lincoln, in the distance. No. 90 car- 

 ries the view around to the north. Prominent on the right 

 is Elbert \s Peak, named from one of Colorado's governors, and 

 which is 14,160 feet high. Next it in the distance are the 

 Grand and Holy Cross Mountains, and on the left the same 

 wilderness of nameless peaks; In the last view of the series, 

 No. 97, the eye follows up Lake Creek to its source, about 

 Led Mountain Pass. Beyond the ]>;iss a little way is Grizzly 

 Mountain, so named from the number of bears seen about it, 

 and away in the distance, to its right, are the Elk Mountains ; 

 the glistening white face of Snow Mass. with the Capitol and 

 Sopris still farther to the right, being distinguishable. 



No. 98. SNOW Mass MOUNTAIN and Elk Lakk. The Elk Mountains 

 lie west of the Sawatch Range, occupying a triangular space, 

 bounded upon two faces «by the (hand and (iunnison Rivers, 

 and upon the other by the main range, inclosing an area of 

 about 400 square miles. The center of the range, (the peak 

 in our view being one of the highest point?,) is composed of 

 granitic rocks as a core, about which, upon every side, are 

 tipped up the sedimentary rocks into curiously castellated 

 mountains, to an almost equal height. 



Cpon the Opposite face of this mountain, as shown in the 

 view, is a similar amphitheater tilled with snow, an immense 

 mass, one mile in length by a half mile in breadth, and of 

 great depth. It is this feature that gives if its great promi- 

 nence, as seen from the east. The lake in the foreground is 

 about one hundred acres in extent, occupying an old glacier- 

 bed. Still nearer is an exposure of glacier-smoothed granite, 

 with a stranded bowlder resting upon it. The height of Snow 

 Mass Mountain is 13,899 feet. 



No. 99: 8iAROON MOUNTAIN, lying a little south of east from Snow 

 Mass, from near which this view was taken. Elevation of 

 Stand-pOint, 12,300 feet. The mountain is entirely of sedi- 

 mentary rocks, with the exception of a few dikes, lying in 

 well defined strata of carboniferous sandstones of a deep rich 

 maroon color, dipping to the north. The long narrow ridge 

 running up to the mountains separates the waters of Rock 

 Creek from those of Roaring Fork. Elevation of Maroon 

 Mountain 13,938 feet. 



No. 100. Treasure Mountain, a view looking in an opposite direc- 

 tion^ or directly west from the same stand-point, as in the pre- 

 ceding view. It is the most western spur of the 101k Moun- 

 tain, lying west of Rock Creek. Its broad ridge like summit 

 has an elevation of about 13,260 feet. About its southern face 

 the industrious prospector lias unearthed some very rich sil- 

 ver ores, and already quite a settlement of miners have col- 



