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105104 [sic] descending, the wet snow clogging the mules' feet, and rendering riding over such steep ground and past the ravines at times perilous. Rain had begun to fall at dawn, and every rill was now swollen to a torrent, and afforded instructive but uncomfortable lessons upon erosion, as we rode down and across the plain against a baffling wind.