We followed up the brook-bed to the point where another stream entered it, at an acute angle.

Up this stream we turned, and after following it a little, struck suddenly up a steep hill, and then climbed on and on over a good road, cut in the limestone rock, up and up, until we reached the very summit.

The vegetation here was a curious assemblage,--palms, cedars, oaks, and a mimosa-like tree, formed the chief types.

The limestone rock upon the summit was curiously eroded, as if by rain rills.

The masses presented all the appearance and detail of erosion shown by the great mountain mass of the country itself; looking at one of these little models, only a few feet across, and then gazing out upon the great tangle of mountain peaks around us, one could almost imagine that the one was the intentional reproduction of the other, in miniature.