Late, Needles, Abajo, Sal, Lone Gone, $an Miguel, LaPlata 
Hts. and much of the flat country can be seen. Camped at a 
fine spring 3 miles below the divide on the Dolores side. 
August 29th.- 
Frorn the spring we passed down a canon to the Dolores, there 
was no trail and the lower 5 miles were fearful trampling. 
Reached the river in safety at two O ! clock. (12 or 14 miles) 
Camped inaa fine, meadow. From the spring No. 1 froms the 
surface and escarpments and dips sligh-xy toward the South 
West. The walls of the Dolores are about 500 feet high. 
August 30th.- 
Laid over. Cnitty and Pearson went down the Rio to meander. 
I climbed the catlfon wall on the Wouth West side. Found the 
strata still dipping Wouth West. The Rio is cut for a long 
distance along the slope and finally up it and through the 
antechinal ride to the North. The canon of course grows deeper 
as we descend, and is in many respects a remarkable crevice. 
Climbed a tree on the bluffs and got -a fair view of the country 
South and West. Between the Dolores and tic Elmo there ia a 
slight depression. This depression extends around to the West¬ 
ward toward the Sierra Abajo. In it are the sources of the 
Eoven Weep and others of the Northern branches of McElmo and 
San Juan. These cut through!the sxightly higher mesa to the 
South. No. 1 cret. forms the surface every where. Came upon 
