- 
i fod salle plant (asclepias seg ME 
Ss. 
ee been twenty OB 
' mical observ: 
3 & us se maonaiowr am fay erty of 98° 2 297 
_ and latitud le 409 2 were 
t seven in tis — and 
in about five aes reached a 
short repose. e ed 
and level prairie ridge, where 
and those ses Ore eS es — 
graphus), and a kind of d - 
a were ae frequent ‘daring 
morning, very. 
Were around us in eve 
} e 
orith, ae usu 
fi mais, and anlanl 
the ridge on a breadth of about two miles. 
Change of soil and country appeared here 
tohave produced some change in the vege- 
of the , according to our reck- 
‘ning, we had travelled three hundred and 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
which 
| Squalls of rain, with thunder, a ght 
and | t 
| make as prospe yage to 
ugh | Louis; but, after a cohe of forty a foand 
ves 01 hundred a a thug 
[1842. 
consisted of lime and sandstone, covered by 
the same i 
met with no foss T 
tion of the a Valles above the sea is 
ere about two thousand feet. The astro- 
nomical chirielite of the night placed us 
in longitude 98° 45’ 49”, latitude 400 41’ 
~The animals es som 
te miles alon 
soil here was light but so though in 
some cplioes rather san sith the ex- 
onsisting Eecasipsliy of poplar | 
(po sesh a), and hackbe 
echis crassifolia), is ¢ ectile ‘adiaod entirely 
to so islands, 
ne 28.—We halted to noon at an o 
ver, which o 
about fo ] d been 
ree aon ith the usual ion, the 
hors: sy at a little Apnes. attended 
h 
at our .) ae on the 
we se the startling ni “du soot : 
an instar weapon was in his 
hand, the horses were driven i in, hobbled and 
picketed, and horseme 
ard, and we were al] sitting quicty 
hen suddenly 
rawing but nine inches water, figiad to 
TOUS VOY: 
Vv re 
miles from their vit of var rn 
pe cae far as Scott’ 
