shows some 300 feet more of strata sandstone and shaly "beds 
capped with a massive sandstone. 
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Passed through Trinidad - which is a lively little tom - mostly 
American. Reached camp half way up Fisher Peak before night. 
Aug . 19 th : Made an early start for the summit of hi pliers 
Peak. The castle-like summit hung high above us, the basaltic 
cliffs appearing almost vertical and certainly difficult to scale 
We kept up the left face of a ridge that led up to the peak and 
approached the base of the turret-like summit from the northeast. 
Found a high hitching place for our mules in a little amphithea¬ 
ter within 200 feet of the top. On climbing up we soon found 
ourselves on the crest of a ridge that connects the peak with 
the tableland to the east. This narrow sinuous isthmusVAppears 
in one of my sketches - see large book. The basalt is from 500 
to 700 feet thick and for the last 150 to 200 forms a vertical 
semi columnar wall. The summit has a nearly flat table of several 
acres in extent covered with grass and flowers. The view from 
the summit is of considerable interest. Pikes Peak appears in 
the north. The Greenhorn mountains and the Spanish peaks follow 
to the west and the Calabra group and range continue to the 
south. The great broken lignitic table land lies under us to 
the west, circling from near its Spanish peaks at the north far 
