cierce through the ridge or peak which sharp points no glaciers could be made out the snows either being too fresh covering all traces of ice or else the distance (40 miles) too great. The peaks to all in mountains nearby are very steep the ridges they were limit blade cliffs with great precipices of jagging white below. At some place the cliffs are quite perpendicular & black snow never able to lie on them. The play of fleecy white clouds a farthest before the mountain was very picturesque. This mountain is quite 6000 feet high than the highest peaks I have