sss da yas hg a igh ako ae Sa Witt eter oa 
©. Alpe 
: 0 of re glittering peaks w 
Say; suite mceherdest autelope and a grizzly 
only one we encountered during 
the | > soa as seen scrambling up emong 
the rocks. we passed over a slight rise 
near the riv e caught the first view of 
distance o ut seventy a, to be a low 
and dark Ge Ghininace sri 
majesty amidst the eternal nen nine 
or ten thousand feet into = region of eter- | c 
of the river was 
relied by groves 
camped at night, ati a march of twenty-six 
79 
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was 
unable to travel; and eunie the night a dog 
came into the cam 
August 4.—Our camp was at the foot of 
the granite mountains, which we climbed 
ta e barometrical 
the south, and traversing 
an undulating country, nagar yy of a grey- 
ish micaceous stone and fine-grained 
it again, sik cneamp: and five hundred feet, te: 
ed, after a journey of Swen oe: miles. 
plac mgt 
42° 32 30”, and longitude 108° 3 30! 13!" 
+5.—Th i 
eid 
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calcareous — and coarse sandstone. 
or pudding sto 
ugust 6. as 7 tinued steadily raining 
all the day ; but, xen ithendelions we left our 
encampment in the afternoon. Our animals 
ad been much refreshed by their = 
open valley we had pai 
Immediately at the entrance, and su-- 
ite, are 
the line of our route we entered 
bade 
nt, three ur feet 
ote "yards br broad. The val- 
the breadth of the stream, 
and gene 
ley was se 
spen. 
out with aspen, eye: 
granite, were ties I noticed. 
Here were many old traces of beaver on the 
tream ; remnants of dams, near 
