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303 of the Pacific railway, which is now opened from St Louis, by Kansas City, Leavenworth, + Lecamplon? to a point called unclear Creek. By this route you wd have to get yr wagon + span of mules at Leavenworth + wd reach Pikes Peak and the South Park by the Smoky Hill track. In this way you wd have to travel a great deal further by wagon, + though you wd unclear through a very interesting country + see many unclear and busy places, yet in these respects it cannot compete with the more northerly route. Why, to have seen Chicago is in itself an education. Whether you go by the Denver, or the Leavenworth route, the best way of getting into the South Park is to strike the Arkansas river, + follow it up till you enter the Park, in which you will find the head waters both of this river + of the Platte, separated by a divide of only five miles. Or if you wish for something easier than the South Park + which wd enable you to dispense with wagon, mules, + a unclear of your own, you might take the North Park at the foot of Long's Peak. There is a good path to it from St. Vrain? + Burlington of forty five miles; + I have no doubt but that at the right season you might find some gentleman, or some party, going up into the Mountains for some little camping out, + who wd be glad of your Company. There is good shooting and fishing about Long's Peak, + you can see from the Plains the unclear Park at its South Side.