1842.] 
ing less than three miles, we crossed 
Thompuee creek, one of the fthatiiea tothe | 
left bank of the Sou th fork—a fine stream 
about sixty-five feet wide, and three feet 
the low 
mountains to eit, ten miles 
from the fort, we reached C ala Poudre, 
where we halted to n err is a very 
beautiful mountain stream, ut one. hun- 
dred feet wide, flowing with a full swift cur- 
rent over a rocky bed. e halted under 
the shade of some ccton-woods with which 
n 
rosie ar runs sot the 
and, breaking 
through the Black hills, f falls Site the Platte 
this place. 
apon her ; 
‘not be dismounted, a zing the acco 
given of Mexican s and horetenanship ' 
and we continisad our route in the eget’ 
noon 
2 
northeasterly co we scien a — 
shin. broken into Beal 
la 
summits Iders were 
ou tic direction gutored the vidoe 
sout the 
white of its precipitous sides making it visible 
for wr miles to the south. It i a posed 
of a soft earthy limestone and marls, resem- 
bling that, hereafter described, in ¢ ri neigh- 
rhood of the Chimney rock, on the North 
fork of the Platte, easily worked by the winds 
and rains, and sometimes mou 
At the foot ‘of 
high per- 
pendicular banks, in which aie strata of 
gion is one of remarkable aridity, and perfect 
freedom from moisture. In about whe 5 
the bed of another dry cre 
a high ay prairie, 
pleasant contrast of the deep verdure of its 
wi » parched desert we had passed. 
- eveni ng, we encamped on Crow (? h : men and 
creek, having travelled about at ie a horses, for want of pane having met with 
4 of wer it but once in our uninterru 
quainted with the country, and L bed ae ted miles, oa an rw hh meat diet cre- 
difficulty in ascertainiyg what were the 
— is we cross : sili iain hambre,” said 
t forks of the 3 raed ~eraint , iInqui 3 “ylagente 
This I su to be Crow creek. It i the young Span or ingleogy ety 
salt stream, and the water | A stream of good and clear water ran wind- 
what i: is called a 
stands in pools, having no aa sae course. 
A fine-grained sandstone made 
erm n the banks. The obs 
i seaes us in ee 400 42', lo 
a 104° 57! 4g hers rometer at oe, 
ttached “thenmoineter. 
Jul ‘There g no wood here, we 
used last night the bois de vache, which is 
very a At our camp this morning, 
the was at 25.235; the attached 
say ean 
i- | radise ; 
ough the little valley, and a 
uffalo were quietly feeding a little 
piel below. as quite a hunter’s pa- 
ae will bs seen, by creer remarks. ig 
the ogic: that the cageese 
ents of the soil in these regions are 
and every day served 
ion in my mince 
quent observation, tha 
of the country i 
e 
base of a | breeze 
sy iehich the for- 1 
