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Show 4 0 BECONNAI8SANCE IN THE UTE COUNTRY. 1,000 feet above the valley, and have on top mnch fir and spruce. On the slopes are numerous " spring branches" with aspen thickets* On the whole this valley of the Ohio and of the Little Oreek, on whieh is Gamp 13, is a charmingly soft and enticing picture. The sunny slopes with waving grass, the little hill- streams ami copses of aspen, the crown of dark evergreens and the background of the Cathedral rocks, forming a lovely whole. These Cathedral rocks are, perhaps, 6 miles southwest from Camp 13, evidently on the spur running down west of the Ohio. They extend for one or two miles, are apparently of nearly horizontal strata of some soft rocks washed down, exposing cliffs and spurs 300 or 400 feet high. Many of these spurs are cut in sharp lines against the sky. At one point a cliff like the end of a great cathedral, with strange fantastic spires and long rows of columns in tier above tier, showed bold outline and forcibly claimed for itself the name it bears. The scenery continued the same to the head of the creek, where the ascent was steep and through dense fir, spruce, and aspens, then through glades and a^ ain through dense timber in the descent to Camp 14. The ascent of the Ohio Creek has brought us among the high peaks of a spur of the Elk Mountains. These peaks, high, ragged, and formidable, with immense sharp crests and rising high above the timber, challenged a closer examination, and the party made a detour from its course for this purpose. Examination of the philosophers' monuments.- A march of eight miles brought us over the divide separating the waters of the Taylor from the next tributary of the Grand to the west, the u Bah," an Indian name. The Bah is said to empty into Grand River, below the Lake Fork. Camp 15 was on Anthracite Creek, so called because of a vein of evidently fine anthracite coal found near its head by Thornton, the guide. Professor Hawn visited the ledge and secured specimens. The slopes of Anthracite Creek are densely covered with line timber, and vegetation is luxuriant, and the grass in the glades as fine as bunch- grass could be. The head of Anthracite Creek is encircled by a rim of magnificently bold peaks, sweeping in a gigantic curve of many miles fifcm the north and west, by the north to the south. These striking forms seemed to be worthy to bear the names of those philosophers whose writings have given an impression to the present century as permanent as their namesakes are in the heights of Colorado. Mount Richard Owen has two peaks, the northern of which is the higher, of dusty red rock, probably ferruginous quartz, or perhaps trachite. The peaks are of smoother slopes than those of syenite and trap, but are doubtless more difficult of ascent, as they present exceedingly, sharp, unbroken slopes of small slide rock. From Mount Richard Owen down to Camp 15 is a crest of syenite. This crest, at junction with Mount Owen, has vertical faces of 200 to 300 feet, below which are slopes of debris of same height. This crest drops slowly down to the stream at Camp 15. Its crown is perhaps 5 to 20 feet wide, and too broken to travel on, with great rifts and immense spires. It seems like the ruin of a gigantic causeway, heading up to the peak beyond. On the curve, beyond Owen and Spencer, are several smaller peaks. Herbert Spencer is a gigantic summit of several peaks, connected by sharp curved crests, with an inclosed basin slightly lower than the general height of the slopes and peaks. This mountain is of syenite or other light- gray tock, and presenting a grand confusion of pinnacles and buttresses cut by yawning gorges. It is a gigantic and wonderful mass, comparable to nothing but itself. South of Spencer, across the creek, is Mount Huxley, a lone mount of |