Ascent of : Ha,: t Holmes 
On the morning of the 6th* Mr*. Gannett and I set out to 
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ascend the southern stunmit of th«l range, which is only inferior 
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in el era t ion to Electric leak* being 10 # XQ0 feet in height* 
Ihis peak* or what we suppose to be this peak* has been spoken 
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 
th© country resorts. Herds of elk were frequently encountered, 
and the country is literally cut up by their trails. At an 
elevation of 8 9 700 feet we reached an outcrop of reddish felds- 
palhie granite* ... fhe ascent of a very steep declivity of 
some bod 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 
Iton^ln no recognisable fossils. These limestones form a well 
