in the sun, when I drank it* Many species of flowers were 
hlooming along the snow margins among which were thousands of 
"spring beauties , TI different from our eastern species only in 
having a much broader leaf. I found myself becoming somewhat 
tired, but a mile of the hardest part of my journey was before 
me and I moved on. It would not do to stop long for it was 
already 5 o T clock* 
Picked up many fine specimens of minerals but could 
take only a few with me. Reached the top of the highest peak 
at 6 o ? clock. The plains and the lake had risen like a wall 
as I ascended and I now had a fine view of the whole Salt Lake 
valley with the well defined islands and the great mountain 
ranges. Ogden lay at my feet and our camp was hardly visible 
in the distance. I stood on a ridge but a few feet wide which 
was notched like saw teeth and extended at almost the same ele- 
vation for a quarter of a mile or more to the northwest. Some 
ambitious predecessor had built two considerable piles of stones 
on the very summit to celebrate his triumph. I proceeded to 
indulge in the favorite mountain amusement of pitching them stone 
after stone down the steep and far reaching declivities, and 
watching them until they were lost to sight among the canyons 
or buried in the snow. 
The point where I stood is 10,000 feet above the sea 
level and just one vertical mile above our camp and perhaps 
four miles from camp horizontally to the north. 
Lest night should catch me before I could get out of 
