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Show COLORADO BVPEBINTENDENCY. 233 than six hundred feet from the point of commencement; and from the point where it rnns out there would be an easy grade into the valley of Moses creek. We descended a ravine on the opposite side of this lake stream to &loses creek. and met with no difficulty whatever. The descent was very gentle after we had descended ahont two thousand feet. The valley of Moses creek is thickly tim-bered with pine; it is not more than half a mile wide at any place, and about twelve miles in length. Its conrse is northwest and north of west into the park ' and Grand river. This stream has a gentle grade, and presents no difficult bar-rier to the construction of any kind of a road, although, in consequence of the heavy timber, we had some tronhle in descending it. At the month of t h e p k , St. Louis creek. caminn from the south. ioins its waters with &loses creek. The ~~~ ~ ~~ . ~~ " ." park, as you firs1 enter, is narrow and awarnpy, but as yon p,ma down, it becomrs rtder and forms quite an elevated trrble land: it is ahour aixtrrn miles lonp,n~~d from one to thre'e wide; it is not much of park; through it, howev&, run numerous small streams, capable of irrigating every foob of it ; it is $so divided into three distinct table lands, each one twenty or thirty feet perpendicularly below the other; going out of this, we came into a narrow ravine with timher on one side, which led us into the valley of Grand river. Thia is also called a portion of the middle park, and is much wider than the one just described, and is superior in beauty and productiveness, though it is not more than six or seven miles long. Here we found abundance of strawberries, wild wheat, oats, 5x; Pee. ; the soil generally rich and capable of arable culture, though the season must be short; immediately south of this is another small park, and another still a little southwest of this. These parka are all divided by high ranges of mountains, and generally connected by caaarr, or ravines; hence, the middle park is nothing but a succession of small parks, and not of the magnitude and beauty people generally suppose. We come'out upon the Grand river at the famous "Hot Sulphur Springs." These 0pIingfi are about ninety miles from Denver City, four in number, the water of which is very hot. Crossing the Grand west, we rose to a considerably higher elevation into a ',sea park," whose undulation and surfaxe represent the billowy waves of the sea; the soil is rich but ,dry; grass gnod. Fourteen miles from Grand river, due west, we came to what we called Olley's creek. It is a stream of considerable importance, and has a splendid%ottom about a mile wide. Passing this, werise to another table land, and for two or three miles it is perfectly level, and then it becomes rough like the plain immediately west of the G ~ n d . It is very extensive, and in the centre is an immcuse "butte" rising to several thousand feet in height, all covered with a thick growth of forest trees, pine, balm, kc. I t is nearly ronnd, and, ' situated an it is, in an open plain, it is perfectly beautiful. We named it the "Grove Butte." In this plain there are nberous perpendicular dikes of rock standing out some two or three feet in placea. There are also numerousthin plates of sandstone lying near the surface parallel with the horizon,beneath which fhere are Rome twentv or more feet of alluvial earth and coarse sand. I ~~-~ ~~ -~ ~ This peculiar deposit, or fonn'ation, forms numerous small table lands, many of them terminntine abruptly,,making a perpendicular descent on the western aide of from ten to Genty Ieit. Some thirty or forty miles west of Grand river we come to what we called the Park range of mountains. This range is generally covered with fpi-st trees, pine, fir, balsam, cedar, kc., amid which is interspersed with small pa~ka; we passed over this range through what is known as "Gore's Pass;' Major Bridger, our guide, conducted Lord Gore through this pass over eight years ago, with a train of some twenty wagons, hence we gave it the name of "Gore's Pass." This range of mountains runs northeast and eonthwest; our conrse in crossing it waa nearly south, a little west; onr passage over was a gentle inclined plane on both sides, an easy and practicable grade for a railroad. In descending these mouutaius we came into a beautiful park, running west, some ten miles iu |