1893 
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glacial action in the form of rounded outlines and small glacial valleys 
at the heads of the canons. 
The entire summit must have been covered and the "Cofra* is the re- 
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mains of the heavy lava cap that once covered the mountain, but "was de- 
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nuded by the ice cap to this relic* The absence of all talus about the 
base of this bold rocky fragment shews how cleanly the ice did its work. 
The head of the canon in which the nevero’s hut is situated is a 
fine glacial amphitheatre. After trying several places along the per- 
pendicuiar walls of the !, Cofre" I finally found a crevice up which we 
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crept and reached the summit without further trouble. Several species 
of flowering plants and grasses were found growing on the extreme top 
of this rook at 14,000 feet altitude and numerous lizards were found 
living there of which a few were captured. 
The entire top of the mountain above timberline is more or less 
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covered with various species of plants showing the effect of abundance 
of moisture and a fertile soil. 
The old crater here has evidently broken down to the east or SE, 
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As we reached the top of the mountain a moist wind came sweeping up 
from the low country to the east and everything was shut out below us 
in that direction by a brilliantly white mass of vapor fragments of 
which swept up and covered the cap of the mountain at intervals. 
Standing so to look down into the old crater 1200 feet below and watch¬ 
ing the fantastically curling masses of cloud wrack that come boiling 
up the face of the yawning cliffs and chasms below. Occasional breaks 
through the sheet of vapor in the north and HW gave views of rolling 
pine covered hills stretching far away to the horizon. 
Just below timberline in this forest various brilliantly green 
openings showed the presence of little glaoier meadows apparently down 
to 10,000 feet or so, , 
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