Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . creek-bed, 1,000feet below, it is hard to realize that the bridge, near the rimof the canyon, spans a ravine 120 feet wide and that the spanis tw^enty feet thick and thirteen feet across the top. Theformation of the canyon is limestone, shale, and white andyellow sandstone, all in horizontal stratifications. The lime-stone contains fossils of marine mollusks in excellent preser-vation. Few people as yet have seen this natural bridge. We returned to Cedar City on the same day, campedon the outskirts of the town and early next morning startedfor the Cedar Mountains an
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . creek-bed, 1,000feet below, it is hard to realize that the bridge, near the rimof the canyon, spans a ravine 120 feet wide and that the spanis tw^enty feet thick and thirteen feet across the top. Theformation of the canyon is limestone, shale, and white andyellow sandstone, all in horizontal stratifications. The lime-stone contains fossils of marine mollusks in excellent preser-vation. Few people as yet have seen this natural bridge. We returned to Cedar City on the same day, campedon the outskirts of the town and early next morning startedfor the Cedar Mountains and the Markagunt Plateau, abouttwenty miles beyond. On this trip we carried our equip-ment in a light wagon, drawn by two horses, Duffin drivingand Mr. Doll and I riding when the road was level, butwalking when it w^as steep or rough, which it proved to bemost of the way. Upon the plateau we experienced much trouble incrossing ravines and boggy meadows where the horsesbecame mired and the wagon sank in to the hubs of the 51. COAL CREEK CANYON NEAR OLDSAW MILL wheels, but then also we passedthrough forests of aspen,where it was pleasant to travelamong the white tree trunksand masses of larkspur justcoming into bloom. In anothersection we were amazed at thedisplay and variety of flow^ersgrowing upon the slope, ad-joining a stream. There werewhite columbine, pink sweet briar, red bugle weed, yellowmules ears, blue larkspur, sago lilies of different shades, andmany others—a riot of color and a delight. In former j^ears,we were told, this was the condition of every meadow andglade. To-day such placesare few and sheep grazing isthe cause. We located our camp at thehead of Duck Lake, a pictur-esque sheet of water surround-ed by meadows and woodedhills, at an elevation of 10,000feet. The lake is fed by nu-merous springs and containstrout of large size. Its out-let is subterranean, giving riseto a good sized stream in avalley five miles below. Ding-ing a weeks collecting welargely exte
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