This crude map was hung up in full view of the spectators, and served him well in an effort to make clear his deductions.

His original sketch is reproduced later on in this chronicle.) 2.

There was no visible sign of past or present human habitation.
Absolutely nothing appeared to indicate that man had ever attempted to claim or occupy this virgin land.
3.

The channel through the mountain was less than one hundred feet wide.
The walls of this gorge at one point were fully seven hundred feet high, absolutely perpendicular, and of solid rock.

It was as if the hill had been split wide open with one blow of a tremendous broad-ax.