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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



Leaving the road here, they went down the Cottonwood Valley some 30 

 miles, when they turned due east to Council Grove, from which place 



the Santa Fe road was followed southwest for about 24 miles to a 

 watering place known as Lost Springs. Here they struck across the 

 country in a northwest direction to Smoky Hill River again at a point 



