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175 Monday, Sept 10th,- Pleasant. we left camp at 7 Am and were obliged to travel over the worst country I have ever seen. had a mountain to descend this AM. where I though it almost impossible for mules, or Horse, to get along.-we were obliged to travel along on the side of these mountains where we were hundreds, and hundreds, of feet to the bottom, and so steep too. we expected to see some of our animals going headlong every moment - it was the more difficult, as there were so many rolling stones in our path, as we came long.-however am pleased to say we all arrived safe and sound, in the Valley below, and thankful were we to get here, as no doubt were our animals too. as we were coming down the mountains saw some fellows with wagons. working their way down, had taken their mules off and were lowering their wagons down with ropes made fast around the trees.- would take some three or four turns around a tree. then hold on. and let them down in this way. We saw several trees that were nearly cut off by these ropes in this way. - after having gone the length of their ropes, would chain their wagons to a tree, and fleet? up and take a turn around another tree further down, then start again, and in this