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[[underlined]] Tierra Amarilla [[/underlined]]

river is a canyon wall, the south side an open mountain slope. The road follows all the way down on the south side & we did not see the Brazos till we camped near its mouth. The north wall rises almost sheer ^[[in]] over 2000 feet of granite cliff, equalling if it does not exceed El Capitan or any of the Yosemite cliffs in beauty & grandieur. The wall is cut in two bold headlands standing out like El Capitan & Half Dome, with beautifully fluted vertical cleavage. There is none of the real dome structure or arched cleavage, but the cliffs have been carved by ice just as those of the Yosemite have.

On the way down we passed a little Tule lake & out in the middle near open water found a fine old beaver house. It has long been abandoned & the top has been burned off but the mud around it is strewn with sticks cut by the beaver not many years ago. There were numerous other little meadows.