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Beginning at Parrott, or LaPlata City, Colorado, 
Tuesday July 27, 1872T. 
Started the train this morning with 30 days provision. Our 
intention is to go direct to title peak, thence to the ^'est and 
£buth. Jackson marched with us fur some days. He is on his 
way to the Moqui^ Country, and intends to be cut some 5 weeks. 
Hail is expected this evening and we conclude to wait until 
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afternoon. Mr. Aldrich is to go with us to llj$e peak and then 
return. 
No mail at 3 O’clock. Jackson and Aldrich remain to get it 
in the morning. Made Maneos Gamp. 
July 28th.j7 
C Left Manees Camp with the intention of marching about 15 rhiles, 
but found no sheItor until we reached the base of the peak, a 
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distance of 35 miles. We reached Naragurnneps ,Camp dt about 
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5 O'clock - Kow-d(£-dp pointed out a spring to us - a very weak 
and obscure one - The only water in the neighborhood. Without 
the Indians we should probably have had a dry camp. Cretaceous 
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rocks only are exposed on the trail. Five miles from the Mances 
we.pass the divide into the McElmo. The inoceranus limestone (?) 
~(c&l. sand) is exposed near the divide. On the left rise the 
escarped bluffs of the Mesa Verde. The lower slope for 800 or 
1000 feet is of the upper cretaceous shales. Then came 200 to 
280 feet of sandstone interbedded with shales above and below; 
then 600 to 80.0 feet of shale and the coal series and the upper 
escarpment of sand; 150 feet pretty solid sandstone. Along the 
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