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44 We had now entered sixty miles into the most strange [unclear] were getting heartily tired of the monotony of hills and valleys all the time I thought the prairie tiresome and dreary but they are fine compared to the mountains the constant [unclear: gravity?] of them ever before around and above you brings on a
[unclear] and you long to see a few acres of [unclear] ground
On the third afternoon after leaving the [unclear: Platte?] we were [unclear] slowly along up and down the rocks we climbed up on rougher than usual wound slowly round its lofty base when suddenly on rounding its corner I thought for a moment that I was flying through the air a most grand and magnificent sight burst on our view looking like a vast sea dotted
[unclear] there the great Central Park of the Rocky Mountains
stretched at our feet I thought it was the grandest sight I had ever [unclear] It seemed as if we had been [unclear]
[unclear] through dangers difficulties and storms and at last [unclear] reached the haven of peace We all stood entranced [unclear] for a few moments gazing intently [unclear]
the splendid scene then we had to give [unclear] to our feet
[unclear] some way so shouted with all our might [unclear] [unclear] for several minutes [unclear] last getting [unclear] down [unclear] [unclear] we made a few observations before decending into
the park it looked to be a vast plain level as a lake [unclear]
[unclear] streams dotting its surface in all directions it
was seemingly eighty miles long and thirty broad bounded on all sides by the blue snow capped mountains [unclear]
[unclear] which we were standing We stood admiring the [unclear]
about half an hourand then prepared to [unclear]
[unclear] it was plainly in sight twenty miles
This is a most remarkable freak of nature in the centre of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of eight thousand feet above the sea To find a broad level prairie grass growing there
[unclear] and not a hill in all its [unclear]
Its level [unclear] wonder [unclear]