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Show Figure 49.-Tower u.t tbe mouth of Dirty Dovil River. BENHY MOUNTAINS 141 camped on the side of th~ second peak of the rango, at an elevation of about eight thousand feet above the sea. Our camp was on a small stream, evidently formed by the melting snows in the gulches above us. The llenry Mountains cont:~ist of five peaks, having a northerly and southerly axis, standing on the back of tho plateau lying between the "Dirty Devil and Colorado Rivers. They arc completely isolated, being fifty miles from tho Wasatch Plateau and Thousand Lake Mountain, on the west; about the same di~:~tance from the Siona Abajo, on the cast, and sixty miles from a huge, lone peak, which we have called the Navajo Mountain, on the south. The three northern peaks havo an elevation of about eleven thousand feet above the sea; the others, loss. Tho crest of the most northern is a long, irregular ridgo; but the others ri~;o to sharp points. From tho ~;ummits of these mountains Wfl could soe the junction of tho cauons of the Dirty Dovil and Colorado Rivers. So, after such an examination of 1 he range as our limited time would permit, we punmed a cmuso a little north of east,, and camped, tho night after leaving the mountain~;, by a small stream, which, from tho boul,d ers in its bod, wo called rrrachyte Creek Tho next day we followed its course, with considerable difficulty, until we found it would tako us to the Colorado, at a point south of om· point of destination. We thon camped, and, after much search, found a way up and across tho sand covered mesa lying north of the creek, and came to the head of a deep canon, that joined the Colorado two milos south of the mouth of tho Dirty Devil River. I recognized it as ono explored by members of our party when camped near its mouth last year, and felt confident that if we could once get down its precipitous side to the bottom, we could easily make our way to tho river. After many efforts, wo succeeded in descending, and camped that night near u spring in the cauon. The next day we followed down its course withou~ difficulty, and came to the 1·iver about two miles below tho point where our boat was cached. Here we went into camp, and made our way on foot along- the west bank of the Colorado to our boat, £nding it undil:;turbed, although the high water had washed the saud from uudorneath her keel. rrhe next day was spent in repairing the boat. With the aid of tho materials brought from Kanab we were able to make her perfectly ~caworthy. • |