This morning on rising between 4 & 5 in the Souris valley the ground in the shade covered with white frost & a thin film of ice on water in vessels. Frost on 10th of June rather anomalous. Can easily be accounted for. Strong northerly wind of yesterday brought cold air which, the day being subsequently cloudy & calm, was not warmed or removed. Night clear & radiation lowered temperature even further.

Camp Souris valley 20 ft above R. 5.30 A.m.

Bar 28.44

Ther 46

Bank R. des Lacs 12.45 P.M.

28.17

60

Camp on prairie 9 P.M.

28.20

49

Odometer at R. des Lacs 6270 revolutions

camp on prairie 8765 revolutions

Hill of Murdered Scout situated on W. side of N. end of R. des Lacs. Rises perhaps 100 ft above prairie. Other little elevations S. of it. On top rough representation of sleeping man 15 or 20 ft & footsteps cut out in the turf. (For story see last years notes).

June 10. Left camp early. Stopped at St. Peter's Spring for a While till teams came up then went on to valley about 4 m. E. of Short Cr. Lunched. Found here many new flowers, among others a magnificent Onothera [Evening Primrose] with delicious fragrance. Also a fine showy blue Penstemon [Beard-tongue].

(Ross's notes state: No mention of Pyramid Valley in 1874? Is this Pyramid Valley)

Sandstone like that of the Roche Percée occurs in this valley. It is hard on top & soft below in the same way & has the same arrangements of lengthened bands of Nodular hardening, here running nearly E. & W. Gives rise to two or three small but picturesque masses of rock. About 1/2 m. down the valley & below the sandstone series in clayey beds a lignite a few inches thick is exposed.

T'he Eleag-nus[sicl [Wolf Willow] npw in full bloom & scenting the surface of the prairie wherever little groves of it occur.

Camp 5.15 AM.

Bar 28.23

Ther 48

About 4 m E. of Short Cr. Noon 28.11 620 Camp W side Short Cr. 9 P.M.

28.25

54

Odometer Peters Spring 4237

Odometer Camp 8130

The difference between the Barometer at morning camp & at St.Peter's Spring may be taken as representing the height of the Plateau step caused by the outcrop of Roche Percée Sandstones.