. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Dawson Leuco lodged in its throat. It was easy to pass behind the uppermost of these obstructions, but the other forced us outside. There was nothing here but two blank walls. Bob felt confident, but I was dubious. Finally, I let him down with a rope to the first convenient landing, and saw him climb up again, to prove that it could be done. Still a little timorous, I had him let me down, by way of playing safe, till I got the feel of the thing
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Dawson Leuco lodged in its throat. It was easy to pass behind the uppermost of these obstructions, but the other forced us outside. There was nothing here but two blank walls. Bob felt confident, but I was dubious. Finally, I let him down with a rope to the first convenient landing, and saw him climb up again, to prove that it could be done. Still a little timorous, I had him let me down, by way of playing safe, till I got the feel of the thing (we had but one rope and had to take that down with us). The very walls here were treacherous, for their stability had never been tested save by the soft-falling snow. Block after block I flung down as we descended, so as to forestall the danger of attack from behind. The upper reaches of the second well were occupied by a snowbank and a slithering mass of treacherous accumulation, gravel and wash, all too steep for occupation, but guarded on the outside by a ledge which we had difficulty in descending. When the ledge rose again to the propor- tions of a guardian wall, we were compelled to consider the well proper, a black hole at least a hundred feet deep with about a five to one grade,— that is, the bottom, about one hundred feet farther down, was about twenty feet farther west. I first dropped a big boulder down, both because it was threatening to go itself and to test the depth. Out from under the. Taken in Fresno County Photo by the Author LEUCO CLIFFS—THE GRAND CIRQUE—THE GRAND MORAINE IN FOREGROUND iyo. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, William Leon, 1873-1928; Dickey, Donald R. (Donald Ryder), 1887-1932; Pierce, Wright M; Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953; Br
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