1842.] CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 39 
ee and two and a half miles to the south of the point 
some large es lying about afforded the | where the trail 
means neared a tent, and making other miles from our encampment 
Our to-night were | brought us to the summit. The ascent had 
made jrineipilly ‘of the dry branches of the n so ual, with all the intimate 
artemisia, whic covet: the slopes. It} knowledge posses who 
~ made oa for his for seventeen 
isan 
a 
burns quickly, with a clear oily so 
makes a hot fire. 
hills here 
posed of hard, compact mica slate, with veins 
of — 
st 7.—We left our ease with 
on rising sun. bed 
the creek, the snow line 6f the receited 
ndly before us, the white peaks 
been hid- 
swi a more open 
valley, timbered with sisoek and cotton wood. 
It now n to lose itself in the many small 
forks which satis its head ; 
w. 
not previously seen. 
The afternoon was a with ee of 
rain; but beca 
ists principally of the 
compact mica slate, which crops out on all 
S, i se mot: — rocky an 
slaty. In the ¢ as | border the 
ks, i 
at 10 Pcleck, being at ’36°, 
a heavy dew. 
thermometer, 
and the grass wet with a 
328i 
and we conti-| the b 
, | the foot of the Wind river chain, the view 
obliged to ap ee very ¢ 
ng | Ip to: to find the chin at which w A 
e culminatin is aa peta 
two low hills, rising on 1 either hand 
sixty feet. When I looked back at 
western plain, their summits ap 
about one hu and twenty feet above. 
From the im ind 
mounted immediatel to 
cent of the Capitol hill from the avenue, at 
Washington. It is difficult for me to fix 
positively the breailth of From 
broken ground where it commences, at 
@ compara’ 
its pete the ridge recovering its 
d ter with the Table rock. It 
