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Show WESTERN SHORE- STRONG'S SNOB STATION. 199 different ranges,\ so as . to ' obtain* their general shape and distances, and. sketching in*! the - intervening ground. This course Would secure * all ( he ends of practical utility, without the hazard and t delay to be incurred by penetrating the desert. The hill from which we made our reconnoissance was about three > hundred feet high, and consisted of coarsely granular and earthy limestone, terminating to the northward in a perpendicular cliff of the same formation, in horizontal Strata of only a few inches. in thickness from top to bottom, the whole of whicjWas in a ptate of " rapid disintegration. • ? '', . > • * Friday, June 7.- As it was. not expected that the line could f . reach Strong's Knob before the following day, and there was no intervening point that could be reached by the larger boaj, prb- . visions ready cooked and the blankete of tie shore party . Were . transferred to. the skiff, whose crew was . directed to coast along the shallow water as far sputh as they could get, and then to land jn the bight of the bay and await the conting up of the. line, ' Some • drift- wood Was cut up and loaded into their boat, to' enable • them to. boil coffee for supper and breakfast. The* main camp, was y taken to Strong's Knob, and pitched at the base of the lofty rooky peak which composes it, and which is about seven hundred feet. •'. Saturday, Jim*' 8.- Morning warm and sultry: A station was t $ r$ oted to- day upon the highest peak of this peninsula. A circular stpne enclosure was built'up about five feet'high, within which the - feet of a tripodf made of drift- wood poles, were placed, after the area had been filled in with stones and gravel; the wall was then continued, apd the feet of the tripod secured by being built therein. The whole was covered with cotton cloth of different colours, and presented an object that could be easily distinguished in cl? at Weather" at a distance'of twenty mites. ' After completing the statidn, and, while taking a series of angles upon the surrounding peaks and stations^ a moat furious gale, with low muttering thunder, came up suddenly from the south, which ' • made it difficult to stand erect in our exposed position. With the . gale came a mist, which shortly enveloped th6 lake- and surrounding mountains, rendering objects a few miles distant so indistinct as at once to put an end to my observations; and the gale at length rose to suph a height that the instrument had to. be removed to the shelter ef a neighbouring cliff to save it from destruction. The skifi^ with the camp- equipagft of the shore party, came in , |
