Such trees as there are here possess unusual interest; approaching the crest of the mountains one finds a scattered growth of pinesthe Coulter, ponderosa, Jeffrey's, the glorious sugar pine, the Pinus contorta, and Pinus flexilis, the single leaf or nut pine, and, in scattered tracts, the queer little knob-cone pine.

There was no sound from within, nor would the knob yield to his grasp.