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a short rest. We proceeded on our return to Camp - by the same trail - by which we by which we had gone out. Stopped at Volunteer Creek to lunch & arrived at Camp. about 4.O.Clock P.M. all well & very well satisfied with our trip.

To enter such a beautiful place after travelling up thro' a many unclear of Country - like the Pecos Valley - was indeed like going out of the lower regions or Purgatory into Paradise or the Garden of Eden. If what I have written will give even a faint idea of the Gorgeous & Magnificent Grand & Sublime Scenery unclear I had the satisfaction to behold, then you will unclearpleasure at least in the unclear.

As Ever, B.H.G.