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28 the bluff about two hundred feet high and camped once more on the Platt River. Denver City has a most beautiful site through its centre runs a splendid looking river it is perfectly level on the east side stretches the boundless prairies that we had traversed on the west loomed up the majestic Rocky Mountains seemingly overhanging the city although distant fifteen miles, Longs Peak their highest summit stood like a giant sentinal directly in front of the city its lofty peak covered with eternal snow Pikes Peak to the south west out on the prairie away from the mountains standing like some huge giant guarding the entrance of such countless wealth, everything