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Show 46 RECONNAISSANCE IN THE UTE COUNTRY. three or four miles of Camp 22 we turned to the left across foot of the spur into the gulch of Bed Mountain Pass. Bed Mountain Pass.- Approaching the pass from our Gamp 22, the ascent for a distance of about four miles is not very steep and the trail is good. One mile from camp the trail crosses " Pass* Creek, and thence continues up the left bank of the stream for about three miles, where it again crosses to the right bank, entering very dense pine timber. Thence for a distance of half a mile the ascent is easy, and { hen the trail rises suddenly on the hill- side, and is very steep, rising fully seven hundred feet in half a mile or less. There is no dangerous place, and it is in timber for the greater part of the ascent. After leaving the timber the ascent is still steep, but less so; and the trail becomes gradually more and more level until the summit is reached, where there are two or three small ponds. From the brow of the hill above timber a grand view of Taylor Valley is obtainable, but nothing can be seen westwardly from the summit of the pass, which is a steep walled cafion, having its axis N. W. and S. E., the trend of the valley below being S. 8. W. From the point of view indicated is seen Taylor Eiver and mountains westi The pass is one of the highest and ruggedest yet seen on the expedition. On either hand rise great snowy peaks, cut by gulches, bare of vegetation, and having the sharp- curved crests shown in most of these high ranges. On September 20 there was about an inch of snow on the pass, the first this season. The summit of the divide is parallel to the general course of the valley of the Lake Fork, and is part of the right wall of that valley. Standing on this summit, and looking in the direction of the trail from Taylor, the line of sight is square across the valley of Lake Fork, and the descent is down the steep side of the mountain, a fall of over eight hundred feet being made in less than twenty- five hundred feet, to accomplish which the trail is zigzagged, and is in places very boggy, and difficult for pack- animals, a great deal of water coming out at the foot of the mountain. The first view of the valley of the Lake Fork is dreary, but little timber, poor grass, and dense scrub willows in the bottom. Near our Camp 23, which was distant about three and a half miles from the summit, there was a little grass, sufficient for our stock for two days, and this, with a small glade eight miles farther down, were the only good camping- places between the summit and the lakes. Here and there in the bottom, at the confluence of torrents, were some patches of fair- sized spruce- pine, but most of the timber was small. About 400 feet up the mountain- side, on the right bank, is a very well marked water- line, denoting level of former lake, of which present lakes are the remains. The valley of the Lake Fork is generally rugged and narrow, more especially for the distance of three or tour miles above the lakes, where the stream runs in a bed of huge bowlders, and in one place under a picturesque natural bridge of rock. Camp 24 was on the shore of Upper Lake. Twin Lakes.- The Twin Lakes are two beautiful sheets of water, about four miles in joint length from east to west, and a mile and a quarter in greatest width, the upper lake being the smaller. About half a mile above the lakes the valley of the Lake Fork opens out, leaving a flat, stony, willow- covered bottom, which, a little farther down, ( near the lake,) changes to grassy swamp. The mountains on the right bank maintain their line to the eastern end of the lower lake, and then fall away southwardly, forming the right side of the |