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the above result, compared with the latest astronomical determinations, is much 

 more erroneous in latitude than in longitude, differing in latitude thirty-one 

 minutes, and in longitude scarcely as much as twenty-three minutes of arc. I 

 also succeeded in determining, with approximate correctness, by means of com- 

 binations, the position of the Lake of Timpanogos, now commonly called the 

 Great Salt Lake; the river which runs into the smaller Utah Lake (a fresh- 

 water lake) now alone retains the name, being called the Timpanogos River. In 

 the language of the neighbouring Utah Indians, the river is called Og-wahbe, 

 and by abbreviation Ogo only; timpan is rock, therefore Timpan-ogo is rocky 

 river. (Fremont, Expl. Exped. 1845, p. 273.) Buschmann explains the word 

 timpa as arising out of the Mexican tetl, rock, having discovered in '* pa" a native 

 North-Mexican substantive ending ; he assigns to ogo the general signification of 

 water; see his work entitled "Die Spuren der aztekischen Sprache im nordlichen 

 Mexico, S. 354356 and 351. The " Great Salt Lake City " of the Mormons 

 is in 40 46' N., 112 04' W. Compare Expedition to the Valley of the 

 Great Salt Lake of Utah, by Captain Howard Stansbury, 1852, p. 300; and 

 Humboldt, Ansichten der Natur, Bd. i. S. 346. My map gives " Montagnes de 

 Sel Gemme " somewhat to the east of the Laguna de Timpanogos, 40 7' N., 

 111 47' W.; therefore my first conjecture differed in latitude thirty-nine, and 

 in longitude seventeen minutes. The latest determinations of the position of 

 Santa Fe', the capital of New Mexico, with which I am acquainted, are: a. 

 according to many star altitudes determined by Lieut. Emory (1846), 35 44' 

 6"; b. according to Gregg and Dr. Wislizenus (1848), perhaps at a different 

 spot, 35 41' 6". Emory's longitude is 7 h 4 m 18 s of time west of Greenwich; 

 Wislizenus's is 28' of arc less westerly. (New Mexico and California, by Emory, 

 Dociun. No. 41, p. 36; Wish p. 29.) The error of most maps of the country 

 about Santa Fd is to make places too northerly. The elevation of the town of 

 Santa Fe above the sea is, according to Emory, 6422, and according to Wisli- 

 zenus, fully 6611 Paris feet; mean, 6516 (or 6944 English) feet; therefore 

 equal to the height of the passes of the Splugen and the St. Gothard in the 

 Swiss Alps. 



( M7 ) p. 392. The latitude of Albuquerque is taken from the good special 

 map entitled Map of the Territory of New Mexico, by Kern, 1851. The eleva- 

 tion is, according to Emory (p. 166), 4750 feet; but according to AYislizenus 

 (p. 122), 4859 feet. 



(**) p. 392. On the latitude of Paso del Norte, compare Wiblizenus, p. 125, 

 Met. Tables VIII. to XII. Aug. 1846. 



(**) p. 394. Compare Fremont, Report of the Exploring Exped. in 1842, 

 p. 60; Dana, Geology of the U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 611613; and for South 



