One must be three or four miles off, and the other twelve or fifteen.

The farthest one may be a peak, and the one nearer some conspicuous tree or rock in a line with it." "Yes, that is what we make it out to be," Boston Joe said.

"We have the choice of either going up the Gila valley and mounting this side stream till we come upon something that agrees with these four marks, or of keeping along from the west by a valley about the right distance from the Gila." "I should not think we can trust much to distances," Dick said; "this man was merely sketching out a plan to help him on his way up again, should he ever make up a party to return to the mine, and, though probably these bendings and turnings of the road are to be depended upon, the map itself cannot be done to any scale.

Here the peaks are made twice as far from the left side as they are from the river, but they may be really four times as far, or they may be only the same distance; there is no saying at all; as he has drawn it, the point where the road begins is a good deal more to the south than the peaks are.

If the scale is correct, it is not more than thirty miles at most north of the Gila that the path begins.