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I had a refreshing nights sleep and awoke in the morning about daybreak the rest of the boys were already up and busy preparing to make a start in to the mountains, but we remarked? it as somewhat singular that although it was an hour after daylight and a clear sky there was no appearance of the suns rising on examining our compass we found that a high spur of mountain stood between us and the east and it was two hours after daylight before old Sol peeped over its summit. By this time we had all things prepared and commenced to climb the old Rockys?. we entered through a defile or mountain gulley the dried up bed of a stream there was still a small rivulet running in its lowest parts on either hand rose towering precipices that would make the eyes ache to look to their summits. The ascent was very gradual for the first two miles but a steady incline upward, at this point the mountains presented a most sublime view huge rocked piled ther above their? thousands of feet above our heads threathening at the slightest jar or puff of wind to rush resistlessly down to our destruction. Along by our feet rushed a small mountain torrent its water cold and clear as crystal refreshed our lips many times during that weary ascent, we continued on till about noon and made probably six miles on our journey. As soon as we entered the mountains we lost altogether our view of the plains our compass was the only means of knowing in what direction we were going our main course so far was southwest. At the spot where we camped for dinner there was scarcely room for our wagons unclear stand the mountains rose on both sides of us almost perpindicular the road made in the bottom was only just wide enough for one wagon. After a rest of a couple of hours we commenced to climb again the road commenced to get very rough and stony and some places very steep hills to climb so very steep that we would have to get four teams of horses to pull us up.