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[[underlined]] Yellowstone Park [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 4 [[/underlined]] Came down Soda Butte Creek to the East Fork of Yellowstone & down it to the main river. Crossed on a bridge and followed a trail up the west side to Tower Falls and camped a mile beyond on a little creek.

Set traps for small things.

Tower Falls are close to the river on a side creek, a very pretty fall about 75 feet high. The river flows through a low cañon and is narrow and rapid. Basaltic Cliffs border it in places. Some high ridges are porphry or some kind of old lava rock. Only low mountains are in sight.

Aneroid at moring camp at Soda Butte read 6600, at [[strikethrough]] b [[/strikethrough]] bridge of Yellowstone 6000, top of Tower Falls 6250, Camp 6450. The lower valleys are strongly Transition but no sign of Sonoran forms.

Saw one Coriacus doe, 3 wild geese, Spermophilus elegans reaches down to the river - A Tamias that climbs trees is rather common.

We saw a lot of fresh beaver cuttings along Soda Butte Creek. Some elk horns & deer tracks seen.

Pseudotsuga douglassii & pinus murryana & P. flexilis are the commonest trees. Some Picea engelmani along streams. Populus tremuloides is abundant in thickets & Populus balsamifera and probably also P. angustifolia grows along the streams.

Passed some sulphur springs near the river above the bridge & some more at the Tower Falls.

Came about 22 miles.

Transcription Notes:
"moring" - meant morning?