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The
course
of
the
river
beyond
the
city
seemed
marked
by
a
broad
,
depressed
line
,
while
the
land
assumed
a
somewhat
greater
ruggedness
,
seeming
to
slope
slightly
upward
as
it
receded
in
the
mist-hazed
west
.
So
far
we
had
made
no
landing
,
yet
to
leave
the
plateau
without
an
attempt
at
entering
some
of
the
monstrous
structures
would
have
been
inconceivable
.
Accordingly
,
we
decided
to
find
a
smooth
place
on
the
foothills
near
our
navigable
pass
,
there
grounding
the
plane
and
preparing
to
do
some
exploration
on
foot
.
Though
these
gradual
slopes
were
partly
covered
with
a
scattering
of
ruins
,
low
flying
soon
disclosed
an
ampler
number
of
possible
landing
places
.
Selecting
that
nearest
to
the
pass
,
since
our
flight
would
be
across
the
great
range
and
back
to
camp
,
we
succeeded
about
12:30
P.M.
in
effecting
a
landing
on
a
smooth
,
hard
snow
field
wholly
devoid
of
obstacles
and
well
adapted
to
a
swift
and
favorable
take-off
later
on
.
It
did
not
seem
necessary
to
protect
the
plane
with
a
snow
banking
for
so
brief
a
time
and
in
so
comfortable
an
absence
of
high
winds
at
this
level
;
hence
we
merely
saw
that
the
landing
skis
were
safely
lodged
,
and
that
the
vital
parts
of
the
mechanism
were
guarded
against
the
cold
.
For
our
foot
journey
we
discarded
the
heaviest
of
our
flying
furs
,
and
took
with
us
a
small
outfit
consisting
of
pocket
compass
,
hand
camera
,
light
provisions
,
voluminous
notebooks
and
paper
,
geologist
's
hammer
and
chisel
,
specimen
bags
,
coil
of
climbing
rope
,
and
powerful
electric
torches
with
extra
batteries
;
this
equipment
having
been
carried
in
the
plane
on
the
chance
that
we
might
be
able
to
effect
a
landing
,
take
ground
pictures
,
make
drawings
and
topographical
sketches
,
and
obtain
rock
specimens
from
some
bare
slope
,
outcropping
,
or
mountain
cave
.
Fortunately
we
had
a
supply
of
extra
paper
to
tear
up
,
place
in
a
spare
specimen
bag
,
and
use
on
the
ancient
principle
of
hare
and
hounds
for
marking
our
course
in
any
interior
mazes
we
might
be
able
to
penetrate
.
This
had
been
brought
in
case
we
found
some
cave
system
with
air
quiet
enough
to
allow
such
a
rapid
and
easy
method
in
place
of
the
usual
rock-chipping
method
of
trail
blazing
.
Walking
cautiously
downhill
over
the
crusted
snow
toward
the
stupendous
stone
labyrinth
that
loomed
against
the
opalescent
west
,
we
felt
almost
as
keen
a
sense
of
imminent
marvels
as
we
had
felt
on
approaching
the
unfathomed
mountain
pass
four
hours
previously
.
True
,
we
had
become
visually
familiar
with
the
incredible
secret
concealed
by
the
barrier
peaks
;
yet
the
prospect
of
actually
entering
primordial
walls
reared
by
conscious
beings
perhaps
millions
of
years
ago
--
before
any
known
race
of
men
could
have
existed
--
was
none
the
less
awesome
and
potentially
terrible
in
its
implications
of
cosmic
abnormality
.
Though
the
thinness
of
the
air
at
this
prodigious
altitude
made
exertion
somewhat
more
difficult
than
usual
,
both
Danforth
and
I
found
ourselves
bearing
up
very
well
,
and
felt
equal
to
almost
any
task
which
might
fall
to
our
lot
.
It
took
only
a
few
steps
to
bring
us
to
a
shapeless
ruin
worn
level
with
the
snow
,
while
ten
or
fifteen
rods
farther
on
there
was
a
huge
,
roofless
rampart
still
complete
in
its
gigantic
five-pointed
outline
and
rising
to
an
irregular
height
of
ten
or
eleven
feet
.
For
this
latter
we
headed
;
and
when
at
last
we
were
actually
able
to
touch
its
weathered
Cyclopean
blocks
,
we
felt
that
we
had
established
an
unprecedented
and
almost
blasphemous
link
with
forgotten
aeons
normally
closed
to
our
species
.
This
rampart
,
shaped
like
a
star
and
perhaps
three
hundred
feet
from
point
to
point
,
was
built
of
Jurassic
sandstone
blocks
of
irregular
size
,
averaging
6
x
8
feet
in
surface
.
There
was
a
row
of
arched
loopholes
or
windows
about
four
feet
wide
and
five
feet
high
,
spaced
quite
symmetrically
along
the
points
of
the
star
and
at
its
inner
angles
,
and
with
the
bottoms
about
four
feet
from
the
glaciated
surface
.
Looking
through
these
,
we
could
see
that
the
masonry
was
fully
five
feet
thick
,
that
there
were
no
partitions
remaining
within
,
and
that
there
were
traces
of
banded
carvings
or
bas-reliefs
on
the
interior
walls
--
facts
we
had
indeed
guessed
before
,
when
flying
low
over
this
rampart
and
others
like
it
.
Though
lower
parts
must
have
originally
existed
,
all
traces
of
such
things
were
now
wholly
obscured
by
the
deep
layer
of
ice
and
snow
at
this
point
.
We
crawled
through
one
of
the
windows
and
vainly
tried
to
decipher
the
nearly
effaced
mural
designs
,
but
did
not
attempt
to
disturb
the
glaciated
floor
.
Our
orientation
flights
had
indicated
that
many
buildings
in
the
city
proper
were
less
ice-choked
,
and
that
we
might
perhaps
find
wholly
clear
interiors
leading
down
to
the
true
ground
level
if
we
entered
those
structures
still
roofed
at
the
top
.
Before
we
left
the
rampart
we
photographed
it
carefully
,
and
studied
its
mortar-less
Cyclopean
masonry
with
complete
bewilderment
.
We
wished
that
Pabodie
were
present
,
for
his
engineering
knowledge
might
have
helped
us
guess
how
such
titanic
blocks
could
have
been
handled
in
that
unbelievably
remote
age
when
the
city
and
its
outskirts
were
built
up
.
The
half-mile
walk
downhill
to
the
actual
city
,
with
the
upper
wind
shrieking
vainly
and
savagely
through
the
skyward
peaks
in
the
background
,
was
something
of
which
the
smallest
details
will
always
remain
engraved
on
my
mind
.
Only
in
fantastic
nightmares
could
any
human
beings
but
Danforth
and
me
conceive
such
optical
effects
.
Between
us
and
the
churning
vapors
of
the
west
lay
that
monstrous
tangle
of
dark
stone
towers
,
its
outre
and
incredible
forms
impressing
us
afresh
at
every
new
angle
of
vision
.
It
was
a
mirage
in
solid
stone
,
and
were
it
not
for
the
photographs
,
I
would
still
doubt
that
such
a
thing
could
be
.
The
general
type
of
masonry
was
identical
with
that
of
the
rampart
we
had
examined
;
but
the
extravagant
shapes
which
this
masonry
took
in
its
urban
manifestations
were
past
all
description
.
Even
the
pictures
illustrate
only
one
or
two
phases
of
its
endless
variety
,
preternatural
massiveness
,
and
utterly
alien
exoticism
.
There
were
geometrical
forms
for
which
an
Euclid
would
scarcely
find
a
name
--
cones
of
all
degrees
of
irregularity
and
truncation
,
terraces
of
every
sort
of
provocative
disproportion
,
shafts
with
odd
bulbous
enlargements
,
broken
columns
in
curious
groups
,
and
five-pointed
or
five-ridged
arrangements
of
mad
grotesqueness
.
As
we
drew
nearer
we
could
see
beneath
certain
transparent
parts
of
the
ice
sheet
,
and
detect
some
of
the
tubular
stone
bridges
that
connected
the
crazily
sprinkled
structures
at
various
heights
.
Of
orderly
streets
there
seemed
to
be
none
,
the
only
broad
open
swath
being
a
mile
to
the
left
,
where
the
ancient
river
had
doubtless
flowed
through
the
town
into
the
mountains
.
