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ward the Fountain rests on red granite. Along road just before leaving the creek and again on the hill just south of Rattlesnake Park Rattlesnake Park are small outcrops of Fountain conglomerate dipping E into the gneissic mt. They are only a few square feet in area. Could not determine whether they are left in such positions by fault or fold. On W side of R. Park Rattlesnake Park, which reached at 11:a.m., the granite contains large bodies of white quartz. The mt. On W side is gneiss. The Fountain occupies E side of park, dipping inward from all sides. Killed a rattlesnake rattlesnake just S of Rattlesnake Park Rattlesnake Park, in Dry Hollow Dry Hollow. Left Park at 2 p.m. Strata badly twisted where Dry Hollow Dry Hollow enters Little Thompson Little Thompson Creek, Colorado and below there for some distance. Reached Hotel at 6:15, very tired and sore. Here as elsewhere, Lyons is sharply differentiated from Fountain in both color and texture, in the escarpment. Fountain contains