built of well dressed stone. The walls on the East, South and 
West have been small and stand now only 2 or 3 feet high without 
much debris. Near the center of the enclosure is a circular 
basin ?diich seems to have been a water tank. There appear^ to 
be no out-houses to this structure. There is a great deal of 
broken pottery, but no tools or indications of roads. 
July o0t . - 
CNLimbed Ute Peak. Mr. Aldrich ascended with us, had 1400 
feet afoot; made it in 50 minuted. Prom the summit we could 
trace the course of the San Juan for nearly a hundred miles. 
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Could see the mouths of Maneos, Pic Elmo and Montezuna. Could 
see hough Mountain, Monumental Valley, The Blue and Carriso 
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Mountains, The Needles, The Mesa Verde, The LaPlata Mountains 
and the Valley of Dolores. Such a country as that to theWSst 
I have never seen and never hope to see again. It is dry as 
a desert, as monotorious as a plain and as complicated and 
impenetratable as a labyrinth, but it must be explored. The 
dry canons must be meandered and the blazing hot plateaus 
plotted. The glistening thread of the San Juan is our only 
hope. When that is once reached, we can make running trips 
to the North and South and probably be able to connect with 
the work on the Dolores North, and reach our line South. 
The rock of this Mountain is ^rachfbe, very hard with much 
black hornblende and breaks into small plates which rattle 
and jingle under out feet. (See specimens). Fragments of the 
