vallies where it is cut through to castellated & step like rocks of picturesque appearance. This is overlaid by the sandy clays & minor sandstones of the plains with their Ostrea remains & other fossils.
The exposed potions of the trap rock are are everywhere shattered & fissured & do not offer any chance of detecting glacial striation. The sedimentary rocks have suffered in the same way & besides are too soft for the preservation of such markings.
To Butte A 239°
To Butte B 261°
To edge of small buttes running N. from B (C) 270
To U.S.Cavalry camp (Capt Weir) about 15 m. away & N. of the line near two small lakes & a bluff 905°
To our camp in trap dyke valley 9 miles distant 4
To group of samll lakes N. of line (distant) 2700
To peak of Subsidiart Butte D 77.5
Bearing of Butte from camp 184°
Camp 9 m. N. of Butte 8 A.M.
B. 25.91
T. 62° Wind NW. Clear