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forms a horizon with the clouds very similar to the horizon of the clouds with the sea, one of our company who was some what of a humorist and was very fond of a good glass of grog remarked that the clouds looked like an immense dish of egg-nog, we ascended some 4 or 5 hundred feet from our dinner place some times loosing sight of the peak and again seeing its cone towering above every other object. Our path was as rough as it well could be never admitting two abreast and some times tight squeezing for one this part of our ascent was not only difficult but annoying on account of the slowness of our go ahead as we always had to go 30 yards to get 10 when about the above height viz of 400 feet, above the resting place. we came to an extensive plain of Pumice stone almost as barren as the desert of Sahara only ever 1/4 of a mile or so one of those beautiful shrubs with pink blossoms. This plain was some 10 or 15 miles in length and gradually ascends to the foot of the peak. It is covered with immense stones some of them solid and almost