Hl } thickets of willow, acd having rane pa 
| to ; 
red _ sandsto 
vs us throigh the 
ridge, in which hy course of the 
feet in height, and sometimes eight inches 
in diameter. Two or three miles abeve this 
ie we Bro our enca 
the water, is a conglomerate of coarse peb- | t 
bles abou ize of ostrich eggs, and 
which I remarked in the banks of the Lara- 
mie fork. It is overlaid by a soil of mixed 
clay and sand 7 feet thick. By astrono- 
ical observatio 
tude a0 gl 54’ 32”, "and latitude 
After travelling about twelve 
as 
our position is in longi- 
42° 38° 
Mr. C; 
n higher up than this 
int on the river, phieh has the charact ter 
of being exceedingly eget, and walled in 
precipic ou t advisable to 
camp near this place, where’ we were certain 
of obtaining grass, and to-morrow make our 
crossing among the rugged hills to the Sweet 
Water river. Accordi 
and descended the river to an island near by, 
which was about twenty pe 
ed with a luxuriant 
aeote, cover- 
ot prin ot 
Siege river banks with 
traveller. 
._ The island lies be- 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
(1843. 
the meridian of Fort feed apd to Riven’; 
bag Sh chain of the 
fronts mountain ia composed of this rock ; 
nd in a number of gpa I found isolated 
hills, which served to mark a yer. vel, 
which had been bal oe swept a 
These conglomerates are pie ab, ee 
easily dec I am inclined t 
think this forinution | is the Bow! trol w hich 
was etn Bie oh great gir of sand and 
which 
pe lane the little prairie which lies to the 
southward of it, we made in the afternoon an 
eitndgil toa place which di have called 
the Hot A Gate. This place has much. 
the appearance of a gate, by iv the 
Platte passes thes a ridge co 
white and calcareous sandstone. "Phe 
1 itono 
saw tors Hitinerotls herds of mountaia 
d bua heard the volley of 
which pile amen their rapid 
descent down the steep hills. ‘l his was 
first place at which we had killed any of 
these anim: ae and, in consequence ig 
circumstance and of the abundance of these 
hor 
seventeen inches 
Sano ne at the , Weighing eleven. 
pounds. o or tl ese were 
Ww ft 
killed by our party 3 oe place, and of 
the horns were sm The use 
orns seéms 
