. Reports upon the survey of the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain from the Lake of the woods to the summit of the Rocky mountains . r. J u -4: r;:, ^ REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER. 27 Buttes, a distance of about six miles from the camp. The ascent was steeptoward the summit, but practicable. From that elevated point the Rocky-Mountains in all their grandeur were in full view, while beneath us itrequired but little imagination to convert the rolling prairie into an summit of the butte is about 1,700 feet above the level of the prair
. Reports upon the survey of the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain from the Lake of the woods to the summit of the Rocky mountains . r. J u -4: r;:, ^ REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER. 27 Buttes, a distance of about six miles from the camp. The ascent was steeptoward the summit, but practicable. From that elevated point the Rocky-Mountains in all their grandeur were in full view, while beneath us itrequired but little imagination to convert the rolling prairie into an summit of the butte is about 1,700 feet above the level of the prairie. On the 12th of August, accompanied by Major Twining, I left theThree Buttes for the Rocky Mountains, the distance being about onehundred and ten miles. We encamped for the night in a very fine position,giving a full view of the group of buttes composing the Sweet-Grass Hills;for each of the three principal buttes is composed of one chief butte, sur-rounded by others of inferior size, the whole of them covering a consider-able extent of territory. The next morning we moved westward, traveled about twenty-eightmiles, and encamped on Milk River. From our camp we had fine viewsof the
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