ae for the camp a longitude of 104° 39° 
and latitude 41° 08° 31° 
ly 14.—The pia continued fresh from 
; the day 
streams, n miles from 
our Sicaiioeent of the past night, we reach- 
ed a hi ok ridge, composed entirely of 
rthy limestone and mar! previ- 
I er never seen eee 
which impre essed 80 8 
feeling of desolat 
which ra 
was high and ble 
arid country seemed as if j nad been swept 
res, and in every rseihoe the same dull 
d hue, deri tdi aoe the si tes 
mmits w ome 
stunted pines, ene of then dead, ‘al wear- 
ing the same ashen hue of desolat ee vane 
lett the Bac with pleasure ; and, a 
had descended several hundred feet, Mahe 
in one of the ravines, yieh, at the dist: ance 
of every mile or two, c the flan 
ridge Pa little roshing cise, Wilco 4 
ng of a mountain chara We 
and « iste Abi pea eet “ahh opt 
qaanitee of seated and currant bushes 
coo se the 
greater part. 
reek w was three or four feet broad, 
with a ptt cur- 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
| @ solitary hou: any 
| into which tee drive theis horses at ni 
to 
it} 1 
k| of 
‘[1842. 
ay of wooded streams, affinents of ee 
that flowed so far as we could see alo: 
ks We 
in 
miles from our n halt, th 
of Horse c et Be encamped at on 
e ara 
erly. 
he fork o on which we encamped ap 
to have followed an » eaaer ly faboog a to 
tia place ; bet malian oy 8 rig to 
d 
ae pass een 
ranges 0 7, precipitous hills, on as aon 
informed, Goshen’s hol 
ere is some- 
where in or cory this losalisg- . wae so call- 
ed, but Ia ertain that it was the place 
f enc ent. Looki ae back upon 
our 
the spot, at che distance of a few miles to the 
rthward, the hills appear to shut in the 
pare through ak runs the creek, with 
emi-circular sw eep, which might very na- 
bonally: be called a inole in the hills. 
geological composition of the ridge 
The 
oO 
ame which constitutes the rock of the Court- 
house and ne he North fork, which 
ppeared to me a continuation of this ridge. 
he nd rains ation into 
variety of singular f ss into 
Goshen’s hole is about two miles wide, and 
the hill on "the western side imitates, in an 
extraorc massi fort tied 
place, wire remarkable fulness of detail. 
The rock is a and earthy limestone, yen 
without ent appearance of vegetation, 
and much r sage: hs masonry at a little dis- 
Aa and “iy it sweeps around a level 
area two or ines hundred yards in di 
and i in the form of a half 000, tena ati 
ormous_ basti 
perfe ctly lu 
sive appearance of a large city, with a 
which ie Canadians never fail to : see dee 
cabaret ; and rag es te takes the form of 
e, wi large chambers, 
Th 
of the Platte. 
Se jie 
