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the summit during the entire day. het the boys coming up with 
camp. Pound water near the base of the slope and at dark admidst 
a heavy rain went into camp. 
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uast evening it cleared and. turned cool and 
early this morning Wilson and I rode up the slope. About half 
way we came to the snow and on the summit it was 8 to 10 inches 
deep. On the former occasion we had been unable to see even the 
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near spurs on account of the clouds., but now all was clear and 
we looked out from the white summits upon the dark and misty world 
with a strange feeling of awe. All about us was a plain;in the 
distance on all dides stood groups and ranges of mountains, near¬ 
est and to the west were the Henry mountains separated from the 
Aba 30 by a belt of red and yet gray canon country. Under us to 
the north was the curious and somewhat dreaded canon Colorado 
with its flat bottoms and red scalloped cliff borders. In it 
could be seen the Casa Colorado and the site of attack And dem¬ 
oralization of Prof. Gardner. Beyond this valley rose a red 
slope terminating in a somewhat serrated hogback, and north still 
of this were the Sierra LaSal - a handsome, compact, isolated 
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group of mountains. To the left of this said connecting with the 
valley of Canon Colorado could be traced the labyrinthine course 
of the canon bound Rio Colorado. The higher series of cliffs 
seemed to be red, while a secondary were of a yellow gray massive 
sandstone. Extending from the head of the Canon Colorado east¬ 
ward to the Dolores there seemed to be a line of cliffs facing 
the north. The upper escarpment of this line of cliffs would 
