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geologically speaking, and it is not un- 
common to find marine sediments con- 
taining fossils at high altitudes in them.” 
The view from the' summit made im- 
pressions that will last for life. Pinna- 
cles covered with snow extended as far 
as the eye could reach ; a lake, about 
which there was no sign of a living 
thing, lay tranquil in the embrace of the 
mountains and glaciers clung in every 
mountain notch, making a perfect pic- 
ture of desolation. 
The third day’s hunt yielded no game, 
only a prospect of the range of the big 
rams we were hunting, so the next morn- 
ing we started bright and early for their 
habitat. The Indians had located a pass 
by which it could be reached, but the 
pass was formed by slide rock on the 
one hand and a glacier on the other. Of 
course we Cook the slide rock and as- 
cended slowly and with great care. When 
part of the way up we saw a band of 
ewes with a few lambs on the mountain 
back of us. 
At the summit four Stone rams were 
seen about half way up the mountain 
to our right. Their location was such 
that to approach them from above, al- 
ways desirable, was exceedingly difficult, 
as we would have been within their sight 
for several hundred yards. 
Hardly had we started down the moun- 
tain, to approach from below, than a 
strong wind developed up the mountain, 
so we had to choose between those na- 
tural guardians of game, scent and sight, 
and we elected to take the hazard of 
their sight. 
Back to the summit we went, but, while 
we were on our way, the rams moved 
down a bit to a point about a hundred 
yards below a vertical ledge of rock. 
This ledge afforded concealment for us, 
so the new location of the rams was a 
good one for the stalk and we crept down 
the mountain, well out of both sight and 
scent. The end of the ledge was to be 
the place from which we would fire. 
We examined the rams carefully and 
were satisfied that they were reasonably 
good specimens, though nothing unusual 
This settled their fate and in a short 
time Struble and I killed the four. Be- 
fore firing we agreed upon the ramj 
each should kill and they turned out to 
be what we had expected, as two had a 
length of horn of thirty-five inches and 
two of thirty-seven and thirty-seven and 
a quarter inches, respectively. 
I confess to some poor shooting due, 
in the main, to the fact that I am not a 
good shot, but also because the small 
aperture of the receiver sight was the 
one in position and I could not see clear- 
ly through it. The poor shooting necessi- 
tated a run to save a cripple that had 
gone out of sight beyond a ledge. This 
run took me across some slide rock just 
above a very steep snow bank. These 
mountain snow banks are warmed in 
summer by the sun and the surface soft- 
ened, while at night they are frozen 
hard. The snow thus becomes packed 
into ice by thawing and freezing, as well 
as by the pressure of its own weight. 
The snow banks are either smooth on 
the surface, or just beneath it, and are 
really solid ice, that only in appearance 
resemble snow. I stormed. fired and 
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ducks, it’s Infallible for 
mine.” 
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