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with a mountain when contemplated from its flank, where 

 it is, of course, foreshortened and dwarfed. At an ele- 

 vation just under ten thousand feet lies a little tarn, by 

 which the former sheep camp had been established. If 

 one desired to avoid unnecessary labor, he should camp 

 here, leaving Roaring River at the lower end of the 

 rrioraine, just above Moraine Creek, where the ascent is 

 quite gradual. The top of the moraine is nearly level, — 

 that is, it conforms to the course of the former glacier, — 

 and horses could reach this camping-ground without 

 difficulty, and would find abundant feed. Trust the 

 canny Basque to make a good selection for his central 

 camp ! The vegetation was several weeks later than in 

 the valley; "tamarack" pines were growing about us, 

 instead of the Jeffrey and ponderosa pines below, also 

 gooseberry bushes and the chinquapin, which bears its 

 crop of minute triangular chestnuts, a favorite food of 

 deer, grouse, and many sharp-toothed, keen-eyed little 

 beasts. As we looked back across the basin of Sugarloaf 

 Creek we had glimpses of Mt. Silliman and Alta Peak. 

 Snow-patches bordered the valley bottom here. An old- 

 established game trail, worn deep by immemorial deer, was 

 clearly defined, and among the pines was a log torn open 

 not so very long ago by a bear. Below this the bed of 

 the creek was eroded, but about us we saw the first direct 

 record of the work of the old lateral glacier, in the shape 

 of smooth, ice-worn rock in the bed of the stream. I 

 brought home one superb specimen of granite polished 

 by ice, which, though only a span in length, plainly 

 shows in outline the curve of the glacier's fall as it 

 plunged to the valley below. Just above this rock-ferns 

 grew in abundance; the lovely pentstemon flourished, 

 queen of the Sierra flowers, in color a crimson rose-pink, 

 of pure Roman dye ; a red stonecrop, the Sedum roseum, 

 appeared, and an abundance of bunch-grass ran up the 

 side of the hill, not found by us below this level. The 

 sheep of this altitude, if not literally in clover, were in 

 feed that suited them every bit as well, the fattening 



