MOUNT HOLMES. 
From Gilbert *3 Report on the Henry Mountains, 1877. 
"Mount ; Ellsworth (8,000 feet) and Mount Holmes (7,750 
feet) stand close together, but at a little distance from 
the others. J The pass which separates them from Mount Hil- 
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lers has an altitude of 5,250 feet. They are single peaks 
peculiarly rugged in their forms, and unwatered by springs. 
They stand almost upon the brink of the Colorado, which 
here flows through a canon 1,500 feet in depth. 
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"The order of sequence which places Mount Ellsworth 
before Mount Holmes is the order of complexity. The former 
contains one lacolite, the latter two. Neither of the two 
is visible, but the strata which envelop them shadow forth 
their forms and leave no question of their dtiality. They 
are so closely combined that the lesser seems a mere appen- 
dage of the greater. From the center of the greater there 
is a descent of strata in all directions, but from the center 
of the lesser the rocks incline toward one-half only of the 
horizon. Where the two convex arches join there is a curved 
groin — a zone of concave curvature uniting the two convexities 
About the compound figure can be obscurely seen a line of 
maximum dip, and beyond that the fading of the curves. The 
curves throughout are so gentle that it was found exceedingly 
difficult to establish their limits. In a general way it may 
06 said that each oi the Holmes* arches is as broad as the 
