we 
the daylight. We saw on our wa 
elt gg mountain 4 
down on 
a rifle, they 
ira rance 
some hundred aaa ou- 
, dells and ravines 
| Ps amet beauty, all kept ge and fresh h by 
e 
isture in the air, a 
' brilliant flowers, and 
/ around all ey ‘glory of most magnificent 
‘scenes: these constitute the features of the 
place, and impress themselves vividly on 
mi . It was joo aca 
ached the place where our 
animals had Keer left, when we fst at ttempt- 
s on foot of the 
scanty toakia 
= and reache a our camp on 
at dusk. We found all well 
ani- 
water had done mu 
mals. All 
heard ak ie delight the order | rubber 
ward; and toward 
to turn our faces home 
sundown of the 17th, we encamped ats at 
the Two Buttes. 
In the course of this afternoon’s march, 
the barometer was broken past remedy. i 
regretted it, as I was desirous to Prenat it | ing, an it 
again with Dr. Engleman’s — at St. | whe cked 
Louis ich mine were referred; but it | and at 9 o'clock were = 
had done its = well, and ay sine were | on our land journey. 
mainly cece the 
August 19 —We ae our camp on Little | Water, where 
Ps river about 7 in the morning, and tra- scribed, oon ofa gy 
CAPT. FREMONT’S iii 
AT 
August 23,—Yesterday evening we reach- 
| ed our encampmen ok Independence, 
where I t ons 
Here, not namin of the custom of e 
travelers an 's in our country, I en- 
on Gaertn eee y 
bol of the es faith. g the thickly 
inscribed names, [ made on the i 
granite 
the impr Bessie of a large cross, which I co- 
vered with a black preparation of India rubber, 
well calculated to resist the influence of wind 
and rain. It stands amidst the of 
many who have long since found their wy 
to the grave, and for whom the huge roc 
a ee ravestone. 
outh was sent out to \ 
Maine by the Earl of Southampton, Lord 
Arundel, and others ; and in the narrative of 
we ascen e J 
on g never omitted by 
which we erected 
at the ultimate end of 0 our ur route.” is was 
in the year 1 nd in 1842 I obeyed Hrd 
feeling of early travellers, eo ae 
stirs of cross deepl 
tock one thousand sailes beyond the 
2 | Mississippi to which discoverers have given 
the — name of Rock Independence. 
e to my instructions to survey 
the river Platte, if possible, I had determined 
make an attempt at this place. The India 
in 
ing Sait us @ crosi 
