ese canals offer great facilities for the
transportation of burdens; the banks of almost all of them are faced
with granite. Where the streets cross them, there are substantial stone
bridges, which are generally of no more than one arch, so as not to
impede the navigation. The barges used for the transportation of produce
resemble our canal-boats, and have sliding roofs to protect them from
the rain.

Water for the supply of vessels is brought off in large earthen jars. It
is obtained from the river, and if care is not taken, the water will be
impure; it ought to be filled beyond the city. Our supply was obtained
five or six miles up the river by a lighter, in which were placed a
number of water-casks. It proved excellent.

The country around Manila, though no more than an extended plain for
some miles, is one of great interest and beauty, and affords many
agreeable rides on the roads to Santa Anna and Maraquino. Most of the
country-seats are situated on the river Pasig; they may indeed be called
palaces, from their extent and appearance. They are built upon a grand
scale, and after the Italian style, with terraces, supported by strong
abutments, decked with vases of plants. The grounds are ornamented with
the luxuriant, lofty, and graceful trees of the tropics; these are
tolerably well kept. Here and there fine large stone churches, with
their towers and steeples, are to be seen, the whole giving the
impression of a wealthy nobility and a happy and flourishing peasantry.

THE ASCENT OF MOUNT TYNDALL.

CLARENCE KING.

[In 1864 Professor Josiah Dwight Whitney, State Geologist of
California, sent a band of five explorers for a summer's
campaign in the high Sierras. Clarence King was assistant
geologist of the party; he recounted their researches and
adventures in "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada,"
published in 1871 by J. R. Osgood & Co., Boston; three years
later the same firm issued an enlarged edition with maps.
"The Ascent of Mount Tyndall," the third chapter of the book,
is one of the most thrilling stories of adventure ever
written. Clarence King suggested and organized the United
States Geological Survey, and was its director 1878-81. He
died in 1901.]

Morning dawned brightly upon our bivouac among a cluster of dark firs in
the mountain corridor, opened by an ancient glacier of King's River in
the heart of the Sierras. It dawned a trifl