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grow most profusely on the bluff tops. Sitting on one ridge I counted fourteen species of most beautiful flowers all blooming within twenty feet of me.

On Wednesday, Dr. Peale and I took a walk across the hills to Spring Canon which enters the mountains about three miles east of camp.

July Fourth, The Glorious Yankee Doodle Day was hardly recognizable. Stayed in Camp most of the day. The cannon at the fort were fired at 11 o'clock and again at sunset. I made sketches in color of Jno Raymond, Mr. Savage and Dr.Peale.

Early on Friday morning I started with Bennet to the Mountains east of Bridger Peak for a days hunt. We had a carbine and a long betsy of a shot gun and three loads of powder and shot - excepting the powder which was left at the shanty. The mountains were fairly covered with deer, bear and elk tracks and we saw a number of sage hens. He shot at an elk and an antelope but missed both. I fired at a sage cock with my one load but did no harm to anything. We came home gameless, after a twenty mile tramp over the roughest of country. Doctor Hayden had arrived during our absence and the work of organizing for the trip into Yellowstone had already commenced.

Next day I made a sketch of the Valley and Post - from a bluff half a mile Northwest and spent the evening cleaning and greasing my saddle and going to the Hospital with Peale.

The seventh was Sunday, but I did not think of it until