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45 We now commenced to decend for we stood on a mountain unclear about one thousand feet higher than the plane the decent was very abrupt and we had to tie three of our wheels to keep the wagon from pitching over upon the horses in about two hours we reached the park and found that it was even lovlier looking than we had imagined while looking upon it from the mountain top. The grafs was soft and green as a meadow in our own prairie state nice little brooks clear as crystal filled with brook trout sporting gayly before our eyes crofsed and recrofsed each other all over the surface of the plain everything looking so invitingly comfortable we made up our minds to camp there for the night We picketed out our horses and for the first time in four weeks they had good grafs we made a spear and caught some fine brook trout for supper that evening we had such a supper as might make an epicure envious of our enjoyment fish flesh and fowl the kinds being the trout venison and buffalo meat with some bacon to supply the grease for cooking and then we had some ducks for the dessert we made some warm biscuit and tea and it was really the most comfortable meal we had on the journey. This night we did not suffer any from cold we were sheltered from the winds by the mountains in the morning we started once more on a smooth level road in continued very good until noon when we came to a swamp or morafs similar to those in Illinois it was about a fourth of a mile acrofs and dreadful hard pulling sometimes I thought we must sink and go under the mud we held on bravely and at last got acrofs safe we then journeyed on and arrived at Tarryall an hour before sunset this is one hundred miles from Denver and eighty miles from the place we entered them it took us just ten days to come that distance. We were now at the mining ground the goal of all our hopes and expectations and when we came to look at the prospects it seemed as if we were as far as ever from realizing the acquiring of gold which had brought us so long a journey. Tarryall so called