shale beneath has a great deal of hard rock seemingly stained 
and impregnated with iron. The surface of the slops are covered 
with finely, sometimes coarsely brdken fragments of this dark 
glistening rock, can only guess at its thickness for it grades 
down into the subordinate bed of sandstone and shales. 300 feet 
wiiSL perhaps cover it. These last named beds of sandstone 
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sometimes form subordinate mesas, but never so regular as that 
formed by ho. 1. In the afternoon I went back to the cliff 
100 yards from Gamp and made a sketch of a cliff-house and 
drew in the doorway a grizzled hag that might appropriately 
have been the eocupant of such an abode. 
August 2nd. Monday. 
Began march to the San Juan by way of Hoveri 7/e op and McElmo 
25 miles . Chitty and Brandy crossed to the Montazuma. I 
undertook to meander the streams along the trail. Found.some 
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ruins and fortified rocks also on the promontory between Hoven 
Weep and MeElmo, a burial ground of these ancient people. Rows 
of rocks set on edge marked the graves. Some were rectangular; 
some circular; in places many were grouped together. Digging 
yielded only charcoal. In geology there is no change except¬ 
ing that additional beds are exposed in the lower part of the 
valley, some 800 or 900'feet below Ho. 1. Camp on the San Juan 
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Aug. 3rd. Chitty failed to reach camp; his uncle gave out on 
the Montezuma. Jackson and his party leave us this morning on 
