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Show • r { EOHO 1{00K. 33 outstretched plain. I have observed the same phenomenon once before in tho cliffs near Long's Peak, and am pleased to meet with it again . During tho afternoon, Bradley and f climb some cliffs to tho north. Mountain sheep are seen above us, and they stand out on the rocks, and eye us intently, not seeming to move. 'rheir color is much Hko that of the gray sandstone beneath them, and, immovable as they arc, they appear like carved forms. Now a fine ram beats the rock with his fore foot, and, wheeling around, they all bound away together, leaping over rocks and chasms, and climbing walls where no man can follow, and this with an ease and gracefulness most wonderful. At night we return to our camp, under tho boxelders, by the river side. llere we are to spend two or three days, making a series of astronomic observations for latitude and longitude. June 18.-We have named the long peninsular rock on tho other 13ido Echo Rock. Desiring to climb it, Bradley and I take the little boat and pull up stream as far as possible, for it cannot be climbed directly opposite. We land on a talus of rocks at the upper end, to reach a place where it seems practicable to make the ascent; but we must go still farther up tho river. So we scramble along, until we reach a place whore the. river sweeps against the wall. Here we find a shelf, along which we can pass, and now are ready for the climb. We start up a gulch; then pass to the left, on a bench, along the wall; then up again, over broken rocks; then we roach more benches, along which we walk, until we find more broken rocks and crevices, by which we climb, still up, until we have ascended six or eight hundred feet; then we arc mot by a sheer precipice. Looking about, we find a place where it seems possible to climb. I go ahead ; Bradley bands the barometer to me, and follow~:J. So we proceed, stage by stage, until we are nearly to tho summit. llere, by making a spring, I gain a foothold in a little crevice, and grasp an angle of tho rock overhead. I find I can get up no farther, and cannot stop back, for I dare not let go with my hand, and cannot reach foot-holu bolow without. I ~all to Bradley for help. lie finds a way by which he can got to the top of tho rock over my head, but cannot reach me. Then he looks around for some stick or limb of a tree, but finds none. 'rhen he suggests that he had hotter 5 cor~ |