6o 
NEW EXPEDITION. 
it’s gospel truth, we don’t see women often enough 
to know ’em even when they’re right afore our 
eyes ! ” 
®CFTER making several trips to the North, Mr. 
Maxwell’s business called him across a por- 
tion of the country, then hardly more thickly 
settled than that of which we have formerly 
spoken, although lying in an opposite direction, 
viz., the section between the Platte river and the 
Boulder creek. Mrs. Maxwell, as usual, accom- 
panied him. 
The Boulder is a swift, rock-embedded stream, 
rising in little snow-rimmed lakes, far up among 
the peaks of the Snowy Range, and finding its 
way to the plains through one of the grandest 
canons in America. 
I suppose just here I ought to stop and tell 
every one who does not already know what 
canon is. The word is pronounced kan-yun. 
I would suggest the dictionary as a means of 
getting further information concerning it, only no 
one would get any idea of what I have in my 
mind, when I use the word, from what that says : 
“A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high, 
steep banks, worn by water ; ” that will do very 
well for a canon in a dictionary, but I’d like to 
have you see one in the Rocky Mountains! 
