YELLOT/STOHE PARK, 1878 
Ascent of Mount Holmes 
On the morning of the 8th, Mr. Gannett and. I set out to 
ascend the southern summit of the range, which is only inferior 
in elevation to Electric Peak, being 10,100 feet in height. 
This peak, or what we suppose to he this peak, has been spoken 
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of occasionally by visitors as Mount Madison, but on what 
authority or for what reason it is not known. Mr. Gannett 
having first ascended it and determined its height and geogra- 
phic position, proposed to give it the name of the writer, and 
by that name it will appear on his maps. 
At an elevation of 8,000 feet we emerged from the forest 
and came out into a parked zone that skirts the lower slopes. 
Here there are fine upland pastures to which the wild game of 
the country resorts. Herds of elk v/ere frequently encountered, 
and the country is literally cut up by their trails. At an 
elevation of 8,700 feet we reached an outcrop of reddish felds- 
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pathic granite. ... The ascent of a very steep declivity of 
some 500 feet brought us to the point of a narrow flat-topped 
promontory projecting to the southeast from the main peak. In 
the steep face of the promontory there are some 300 or 400 feet 
of dark gray laminated but much indurated limestones. They 
contain no recognizable fossils. These limestones form a well 
