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of the Mesa Verde. The ridge on which Wilsons St* 45 and Chit- 
tendons 1 are located seems to he formed of this same sandstone 
and the Llghiuer Creek bluff is of the lower escarpment . They 
are opening some coal seams in this hlufj? (.Moss and £»ee) * The 
he a vy coal rein above which X had formerly inclined to place In 
the tertiary looks to me now rather cretaceous, but only by asso¬ 
ciation - there is no positive proof. I observe that the Mesa 
Verde is denuded of a greater portion of the upper oacax-psnent 
sandstone than 1 had thought , and the broad valley of the. La?lata 
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and Its tributary, Cherry Croak, are chiefly on the back of the 
lower escarpment sandstone, which for a long distance assumes 
the horizontal position , the upper escarpment only appearing, 
above the Ufa village and outcropping along a line to kilsons 
St 45. A large area on the divide between Liglituer* Creek and • 
the Laplata :1c terraced with drift. Rode up the divide toward 
the southeast spur of the Sierra Lupluta to a high point formed 
of the lower escarp sandstone, and obtained a splendid view of 
the low country about the Rio Laplata and below. There were the 
mesa and needle and mountain groups Just as they were before, but 
all so clour and delicately distinct that it looked like a new 
land - fresh and sparkling. that most surprised m was a little 
city standing on the former mapropitioas looking site of the lone 
house of the Laplata camp - a large village with fresh ruofs and 
weather boarding. If pat down blindfolded in or the place 
1 would have recognised nothing. The trail by which the train 
had marched led mostly through tko dhpr-ossion caused by the er¬ 
osion of the cret, shales. Ho. 1 laps high upon the mountain spur 
and is partially obscured by a capping of tracbytic. The red beds 
