miles abeve, in the spring, 
fining t jetinesible to poe had taken 
up his summer’s residence this island, 
whi med St. He na. 
river hills appeared. to rely 
ably clear. From the mouth of the South 
fork, I had found it occasionally broken up 
by small islands; and at the time of our 
journey, which was at year 
when the were ata favorable stag 
it was not navigable for welded See Se 
inc water. e cu ve 
rift—the bed of the stream Pr revels 
“opr the ae at which we had encoun- 
he Arapahoes, the Platte had been 
saneiy well fringed with timber, and the 
island | e grove of very large 
cotton-w: , under whose broad shade the 
tents we itched. There was a large 
drove of horses in se cy ar mee bot- 
was the 
were soon set before us They peop ple in "hig 
employ were gene rally Spaniards, an 
among them I saw a young Spanish woman 
from Taos, whom I found to be Beckwith’s 
10.—We gees with our hospitable | 1 
=) breakfast the next morning, and 
reached St. Vrain’s Fort, about eat 
iles from St. Hi , late 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
The fs) 
sou 
cattered 
aes seebebiosh my seeing 
i 
[1842 
n search of employment ; ten 
ene tn 
come over i 
several 
to me. The | elevation of the Platte here is 
_ thousand four hundred feet above the 
The ring mountains did not 
appear to enter oo aa region of perpetual 
rally confined to the 
northern side of as ther 
remarked very little. re it appea: 
are o far as I could judge in the distance, 
to reewend but a few hundred feet below the 
summits 
I regre etted that ot did not permit me to 
visit them ; proper object of my sur- 
vey lay among the Rishen abi r north ; 
and I looked forward to an exploration of 
a 
several months, 
ke’s peak is ota to be visible from this 
pace about one hundred miles to the south- 
ard ; but the amity state of the atmosphere 
position of the 12th, enabled me to obtain, 
ra tolerably correct longitude, 105° 12’ 
’ 
Sub 12.—The kindness of Mr. St. Vrain 
had enabled me to obtain a couple of horses 
; and, with a further 
An expected supply from Taos had not yet 
few pounds of was 
that could be spared to us. In addition to 
ied m 
Laramie’s our next 
of destination, was nearly due north. 
distant about one hundred twenty-five 
, our road lay down 
| distance, 
the valley of the Platte, which resembled o 
ai oe os ‘the splendor of fields of varied 
