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tld mo) powdet ail around a little fire which he had kindled, Pix the 
> datense that most of them died the same night; an = ers, in 
vation commenced eating the ears of t e dea 63. 
~The Cimerron at our night campisa fine running eee, with ond grass, 
“re ae elevation of our night camp is 3,830 feet. To- 
é the Cimarron pases as regions. In lookin 
back from here iovania the Arkansas, it is hardly necessary to remark, 
that this whole | ene , from the mueipott the Arkansas to the crossing of 
imarron, wiki never be settled, from “the scantness of grass, the scarcity 
the na. wae want of wood. But westward from here we shall 
ore favored by nature, and more accessible to human in- 
rte BS ip the morning, passing by the urene spring's 
miles,) to, Cold spring, (17 miles.) ~ The road becomes more 
o our right we perc eived —, table-formed hills, with tim- 
refreshing sight to afraveller who comes from the Cimarron 
About five miles “from the crossing, light bluffs rise in the prairie, con- 
sisting of a yah lime and. reddigh sandsto e below, and a ea sandstone, 
ain a "There was common sandstone all 
£ boulders, tesa 
here from more distant places by raise, ice, or rehaser theory one may 
accept for the explanation of those ey masses of rocks, found very dis- 
tant from the place of their origin, and known under the name of boulders. 
My opinion was confirmed by some polished surfaces that I found on the 
southwest side of the blocks, even of those lying on the top of the moun- 
tain. Some miles further I met with many isolated blocks of the same 
character; ao with erratic rocks of serpentine and amygdaloidal basalt. 
Cold , where we halted, afforded us the best water we have 
since we left the Arkansas; it breaks out of the sandstone that prevails here, 
as a Tefreshing coolness. In the evening we marched six miles on 
our “ee and Gicemn ped in the prairie. Towards ceominid we enjoyed the © 
mos eautiful Scenery, which but a landscape of so mixed a character, 
RE prairie and mountains meet,can produce. In the distant moun- 
tains before us, and to our left, a thunder-storm was gathering; and the set- _ 
ting sun illuminated the fast sailing clouds with so many tinted colors, 
— ng their hues every minute, that it would be impossible even for the 
June \7.—We started this morning in a thick fog, with drizzling rain, - 
but at last the. sun overcame the clouds. The road is good, gradually as- 
. ge ng,a while mountai » timbered _ cedar. 
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a ae < us. At noon we halted at Cedar: erecii,; toatn eno 
cedars and cotton-trees grow here; sandstone prevails; the water 
