co] >+— ’ 50 HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS. enter bodily into the hot pool, however I didn’t stay in very long, as its effect is so exhilarating to a novice, I was somewhat afraid. . After my bath I felt able to pull a house down, and hungry as a hunter, and made my way over to the hotel, where the worthy hostess soon set before me a spread, the like of which I fear I shall never relish again—that is, until I get back there once more. Brook trout, real speckled beauties from eight ounces to two pounds in weight, hot out of the pan, hot rolls and tip- top coffee. Ye gods! but it was splendid. After sup- per I turned into my buffalo robe and slept the sleep known only to the just and those who have breathed the air of Middle Park for a day, and bathed in the hot sulphur. | The mountains and valleys of Middle Park abound with game, such as elk, deer, antelope, bear, mountain sheep, rabbits, sage hens, grouse, &c., and I had a week’s shooting there, such as would take a small vol- ume of itself to chronicle. I made some delightful excursions to Grand Lake, the great canon of Grand River, Palisades of Trouble- some Canon and Falls of the Williams River, Corral Creek Canon, Willliam creek gold diggings, the Moss Agate, Chalcedony, and the Onyx fields, the Lava dykes, &c. On the morning that I determined to return, I very fortunately encountered Mr. Rollins, the enterprising builder and proprietor of the road from Rollinsville to Hot Sulphur Springs, and onward to Salt Lake. He ~~ —> ——+~ +