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lowstone Snowy Bange, extending to Emigrant Peak, thirty 

 miles away; then comes the broad park-like valley, six miles 

 wide by thirty long, through the center of which Bows the 

 Yellowstone River. (See No. 200, page 25.) 

 No. 32. Bridgets Mountain, Mont. Elevation'. 9,000 feet above the 



sea, and 4,000 feet above Fort Ellis, distant some three miles 

 south. 



No. 33. Needle Rock in Bridger Canon— southern base of Bridger 

 Mountain. A detached mass of beautifully stratified lime- 

 stones, weathered into a sharp pinnacle, rising some two hun- 

 dred feet above the bed of the creek, 



Nos. 34, 35. MYSTIC Lake, Mont. In the mountains about the head 

 of the East Gallatin River, twelve miles south of Fort Ellis. 

 As it is well stocked with most excellent trout, it is quite a 

 pleasuie resort, despite the difficulties to encounter in reach- 

 ing it. (See No. 197, page 25.) 



No. 36. Camp on Mystic Lake. 



No. 37. Palace Butte Park, near the head of Middle Creek. A most 

 romantic little spot, in the very heart of the Gallatin Moun- 

 tains, distant about twenty-five miles southwest, from Port 

 Ellis. Palace Butte, in the distance, rises nearly 3,000 feet 

 above the valley. 



No. 38. Palace Butte, one of the spurs of Mount Blackmore, Mont., 

 which has an elevation of 10,131 feet, and this portion of it 

 rises abruptly nearly 3,000 feet above the valley at its foot. 



No. 39. Arched Falls', on Middle Creek, just above Palace Butte. The 

 fall makes two leaps of about fifteen feet each, over the lower 

 of which Springs a natural arch, worn out of the solid basal- 

 tic rock. 



No. 40. Falls on Middle Creek, about one mile above Palace Butte 

 Park. 



No. 41. The Cascade, near the sources of Middle Creek. But a short 

 distance above, lie the perpetual snows that feed tin 1 stream. 

 Beaching the brink, the waters are first hurried down a 

 sharp descent of live hundred feet, (the portion included in 

 t he above view.) and then descend in a long series of falls and 

 Cascades to the park-like little valley below. 



No. 42. Head of Middle Creek. The large amphitheater tilled with 

 perpetual snows, from which the creek is fed. The crest is 

 the divide between the waters of the Bast and the West Gal- 

 latin. 



No. 43. Palisades on the West Gallatin Kive-r. Gallatin Canon 

 has a total length of about forty miles, the lower portion of 

 which is extremely wild and rugged in its characteristics. 

 On the eastern side rise these majestic walls and pinnacles to 

 to a height of 2,000 feet. 



No. 44. Trail in West Gallatin Canon, through the dense timber 

 or forest growth, which has in some places obtained a foot- 

 ing among the immense masses of debris that has fallen 

 down from the walls of the canon. 



No. 15. Trail oveu the BOOKS, in West Gallatin Canon. At the foot 

 of the Palisades the trail is forced to the brink of the river, 

 and over huge granite bowlders, for a distance of about a 

 half-mile, forming the most difficult and dangerous traveling 

 the pack and saddle animals have to encounter. The river 

 at this point is but a long series of rapids, averaging t wenty- 

 five feet in width and ten in depth. 



