crossing, we h 
serve that the river pe _ too deep 
to be forded, songs we al ucceede 
in finding a ae Neate did not 
carts. 
clear, with two or thrée hundred fee: any ii 
summits were 
July 28. 29 two miles from our encamp- 
ment, we reached the place where the regu- 
lar road crosses the Platte. ere was two 
feet breadth of water at this time in 
the which has a variable width of eight 
to fifteen hundred feet. The chan were 
rally three feet deep, and there were 
an, r rocks on the bottom, which 
made the — “ — — a little diffi- 
cult. Even ts low s, this river 
cannot be alone at tite hg and this has 
alwa: s e best The 
. 
its course, where access could be 
For the satisfaction of travellers, I will 
to give some description of the 2% 
ture of the road from Laramie to this poi 
ayer leg re ne segs, be inferred fs from , 
The limesto: 
Ceerarins oo 
< rie saber sandstones are grey, yell tg and | had 
ry c The 
d | break down the oH ie roots of the e inn 
“The at chase continued very | senc 
year, which is by no means sufficient te 
region, may 
avoid the greater pa 
now presents. 
From go mouth of the Kansas to the 
as a mountain 
road on the line of communicati 
We c ued our way, me an miles 
beyond the ford Indians were disco 
sent 
who they were. In . 
psi time they returned, accompanied b 
nw * es ~_— of the Ogiallah ban of 
Sioux. m we received some inter- 
ing Nebeahn They had formed part 
of p a village: _ ey pug us 
had broken up, and w 
The sm part of the elon “iniliee the 
ahs, had 
below 
carcasses of the 
which they had eaten, or which had perished 
starvation. Such was the prospect be- 
11 is to turn back at once.” 
