marked escarpment that extend© around the base of the range , 
sinking with a dip of 2 ° to 5° to the level of the drift plain 
on the south slope * 
From the promontory we passed up over heavy snow fields 
and up a sharp crest * and at an elevation of IQ, BOO feet reached 
a sharp conical point, a southeast outlier of fount Holmes. 
Between this point and the main summit there is a depression of 
•Jj. 
a f ew hundred feet « «»» 
The day being exceedingly cold I had to refrain from prolong- 
ed examination as well as from the usual sketching. Topographi- 
cally the peak is simple, 'hut scenically rather imposing, occupy- 
ing, as it does, the extreme point of the range and overlooking 
a grand sweep of low country bordering the Madison , 
v 
{Report on the Geology of the Yellowstone Rational Park, by W. H. 
Holmes, 1878, page 23} 
