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"Snow lakes that drain into the Hornbe,\nA valley is making with a rather sharp dip. It is\nframed on each side by high granite moun-
tains without an overhanging line.",
"The Three Tlesacils form one of the divides."
"About ten miles southward of the Tresacils the
railway descends rapidly and here we have a fine
view (of) a sort of valley with lakes to the west that
lie on a much lower level. All around this
valley is bound in by mountains.",
"The high mountain sides have as usual
a thin cover of large craters, but lower, say
at about 500 feet above sea level, a great area
of small mountains appear mostly of craters
with coarse sand. At a still lower level
say 600-500 feet the railway runs inside an
almost sharply
V shaped gorge the lower part of which is
cut in granite. In this gorge there are various
levels of upgrading and cutting. The train can
or cascade down this slope that would make
not but three. These appeared to me as