Unusual Elevations on the Banks of the Missouri

Description

Passing through the region of the Stone Walls above the Arrow River under full sail on August 6, the Flora made rapid headway, and Bodmer continued making quick studies of the fantastic land forms. Maximilian noted in his journal for the day that along this stretch of the river "the most strange forms are seen, and you may imagine that you see colonnades ... little towers, pulpits, organs with their pipes, old ruins, fortresses, castles, churches with pointed towers . .. almost every mountain bearing on its summit some similar structure."