1842.) CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. PY) 
eelebrated. Chimney rock. It looks, at thir | is « “poor food. The marl and 
distance of about thirty miles, like what i i | earthy limestone, which c ed the 
ealled—the long chimney of a steam fo for days had changed 
establishment, or a shot tower in during the day intoa compact white or ene 
Nothing oceurred to interrupt of | ish white limestone, sometimes containing 
the day, and we encamped on the river, after | hornstone; and at the sre of our encamp- 
eaten we twenty-four miles. Buffalo 
ry scarce, and but one cow had 
been ti killed, of whi : the meat had been cut 
a slices, and we: around the carts 
r 
Travellers who visited it some years since 
te - peat at nivale of 500 feet. 
The valley of the North fork 
a con- 
siderable circuit over the uplands. This 
nine pre: yards in _Jength, and is fami- 
ly er as Scott’s bluffs. We had 
of thirty miles before we 
baigvana but it w ne, and 
the animals could not profit by 
it, and we therefore halted nly about s 
utes, ing place ten miles 
farther on. The plain between Scott’s bluffs 
and Chi rock almost entirely mad 
vered with dri consisting principally 
of cedar, which we were informed, had 
k hills, in a flood 
d | which is a quadrangular st 
. ; 
ft 
Tl he walls are about fifteen feet hic 
i ee 
“ce 
- 
mst sandstone ; one of the strate alc 
rs gneiss. 
13.—To-day, about 4 o’clock, we 
Fi 
mie oes in which the pure and clear water 
of the mountain stream looked refreshingly 
cool, ind made a pleasant contrast to the 
muddy, yellow waters of the Platte.’ 
I walked up to visit our friends at the fort, 
e generally employed in building 
mounted with a wooden palisade 
portion of ranges of houses, which entirely 
surround a yard of about one hundred and 
thirty feet s oe apartment has its 
door and windov ourse rot a 
sabi inside. There are 
of which i isa pl and public e sane rape : 
iat smaller a rivate—a 
er the great 
square with loopholes, and, ie tthe 
rest of dee elke: built of earth. At wo of 
Sy our ort. In addition to this, traders, with a 
ment o crossed Horse creek, | small are constantly kept 
a shallow stream of clear water, the = les of ae — 
venty yards wide, falling into the Platte on | one side, almost. entirely alo robes; 
‘the right bank. It oe lightly timbered, | and, on the of blankets, calicoes, 
and great quantities of drift wood were piled | guns, powder and lead, with such cheap or- 
“Bp on the banks, i be supplied | naments as glass eo ing-glasses, 
a 44 j rings, vermilion for 
painting, tobacco, 
rich | principally, and in spite of the prohibition, of 
i | into the ee Sena 
| of oe ae te ‘and diluted with dame pero 
. While mentioning this fact, it 
