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Show 151 in a letter to the Deseret News: There is a very good road between here jJILover Valley] and Meadow Valley, and for a part of the way the scenery is grand beyond description. For some distance the road follows down a large wash, on either side of which is a high and precipitous bank of sand, or rather sandstone, warn smooth by the action of the water in some places, in others washed and warn until deep fissures and yawing chasms meet on every hand. Here the storms of the ages have carved the soft rock into almost every conceivable shape. Towering above may be seen huge castlelike piles with spires and turrets innumerable, while below are grotesque groupings of figures differently shaped from five to twelve feet high and appearing more like monuments in a churchyeard than anything else. Close beside the road, like sentinels on duty, are tall and slender figures that look like a gust of wind would blow them over, while in the distance are groups of cone-shaped mounds appearing like the tents of a vast army. There is a wild, fantastic beauty about the scene that is rarely excelled in any country. 3 Such were one man's impressions of the country lying between Clover Valley and Msadow Valley. The less artistic Colonel Dame simply reported: "Truly this is a country of hills and hollows. " ^ The company travelled thirty-three miles since leaving Cane Spring Wells that morning and made camp in the wash just four miles east of Meadow Valley.^ An exploring party of seven horsemen had left the camp at Cane Spring Wells early that morning to follow and old Indian trail leading north. The party pursued the trail into the Cedar Range and climbed the slopes of one of tbe higher peaks, calling it Mount Lookout. Here Martineau took observations with a pocket compass and established their position as due west of Painter (Pinto) Creek. Cutting back to the west, tbe reconnoitering party intersected |