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Snow! They skip - they run they come now & then & look me in the eye [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] ^[[insertion] & with a grateful twist of the tail as if to [[/insertion]] say I thank you for this mountain trip! The Lakelet! Temperature 38° take an observation ^[[insertion]] of the sun [[/insertion]] 3 o'clock ^[[insertion]] in Lake [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] Al [[/strikethrough]]Double Altitude 62°-30! [[strikethrough]] Geology [[/strikethrough]] As I had my [[insertion]] [[no chart?]] [[/insertion]] sextant all adjusted & had brought down the Sun to the point where niceity ^[[insertion]] on cue [[/insertion]] begins & ends on to the Sun Bar-pe-Kark jumped! I have hears of "the Cow that jumped over the moon." This was an occular demonstration, that ^[[insertion]] one of [[/insertion]] my Esquimax ^[[insertion]] dogs [[/insertion]] jumped square over the Sun! Suffice ^[[insertion]] it for [[/insertion]] me to say I had to await till the ripples had all died away before I could proceed with my observations. [[strikethrough]] when [[/strikethrough]] The dogs were near melted. Whenever I came to [[strikethrough]] water [[/strikethrough]] a [[strikethrough]] or [[/strikethrough]] Lakelet they would wade in. The deep water- clear view to great depths - Study Geology far down. Clean white stone. The curious creature in the water- its progress on the [[underlined]] almost [[/underlined]] Summer set ^[[insertion]] & lightening [[/insertion]] principle.
The 2d Lake ^[[insertion]] let [[/insertion]]- 42 mile long & 1/2 mile width Deep snow bumps around it - Study Musquitoes an hour. [[strikethrough]] cle [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] Cold [[/insertion]] clear [[insertion]] [[strikethrough]] cold [[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]] crystal waters as ever God made partley covered with musquitoes in
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every stage of breeding. My surprise! Actually breeding on the margin of the snow-bank overhanging the water.
Millions floating on the water not yet advanced to fly! Gathered many in my hand slight exhibitions of life when 1st taken out.
Water 41°
Test my thermometer ^[[insertion]] by burying it [[/insertion]] snow bank - fluid [[strikethrough]] stood [[strikethrough]] stands at 30° Should stand at 32° This is one by Pike of N.Y. It is one if not before used since coming out. I can correct its error by sliding the tube up 2 degrees. The Works of Nature! The water falls. From ^[[insertion]] Level of water in the [[/insertion]] Harbor to 1st Lake 300 feet - from 1st Lake to 2d Lake Falls 15,000 feet - [[strikethrough]] Climb? [[/strikethrough]]
At the foot of the 2d falls - walled in by mountain peaks - testing the water's temperature lost the place where I left it in admiring what was before me! After a half hour's search find it. Mount the freshly broken Rocks beside the Falls Rocks of millions tons weight that could be set in motion by a man's power ^[[insertion]] with [[/insertion]] a crow-bar! The inclination of side of the mountain West of 2d

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For information only - symbols can be copied and pasted in from Word Bar-pe-kark is one of the dogs Niceity = precision or exactness