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of a waggon-road the Mormons had cut out of the face for a 
mile and a quarter. This was the Hurricane Ledge^ which 
extends across the country northwards from the Uinkaret 
Mountains to the Virgen River. Its course is well seen on 
the map opposite page 41, and also on the one on page 37. As 
the traveller comes to Hurricane Hill^ the northern limit, from 
which the whole cliff takes its name, he has before him one of 
the most extraordinary views in all that region, if not in the 
The Expedition Photographer in the Field. 
Photograph by J. K. Hillers, U. S. Geol. Surv. 
world. Even the Grand Canyon itself is hardly more wonder¬ 
ful. To the right and below us lay the fair green fields of To- 
querville, on the opposite side of the Virgen, and all around 
was such a labyrinth of mountains, canyons, cliffs, hills, valleys, 
rocks, and ravines, as fairly to make one’s head swim. I think 
that perhaps, of all the views I have seen in the West, this was 
one of the weirdest and wildest. From Berry Spring in this 
valley a party of us returned to the Uinkaret district by fol¬ 
lowing the country to the west of the Hurricane Ledge. On 
