forms - a dozen in a group forming a great cone. Thick, 
heavy-topped gnarled old fellows, very picturesque indeed. 
Ascended a mountain near the divide to a height of 
nearly 10,000 feet. Made a panoramic sketch of the surround- 
ing mountains. On the East were the turreted peaks, immense- 
ly high, of the Index and Pilot Mountains. Away off younder 
over the Hart Mountains on the lov/er Yellowstone, - in between 
was Glar'ks Fork - near the source, a chain of beautiful lakes, 
lying among a great mass of volcanic mountain heaps, irregular, 
desolate and wild. Farther toward the north were immense 
ranges of mountains with pyramidal and spiral peaks, so steep 
that the snow could not lie within 2, 000. feet of the tops. 
Threads of snow lined well marked crevices. To our left arose 
and flowed down among these peaks into regions of unknown wild- 
ness the romantic Rosebud, with its superb spring flowers and 
a sno wy divide, its Canyon and ten miles of cascades with its 
granite moss grown rocks, its foaming waters, its symmetric 
pines and its birds, and deer and bears. 
To our left at the source of Slough Creek was a little 
lake and over it far away appeared the crest of Emigrant Peak, 
farther to the West we could see the square outline of Electric 
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Peak and from this around to the South a wilderness of immense 
volcanic mountains. 
Doctor, Hayden and I now followed Blackmore down the 
mountain to a little lake two or three miles away — camp — 
cooking - fishing - hunting and sketching. Rapid travel down 
