“on 
and self-de 
required, and who 
which is es bf 
weather, detai 
urred to vary 
ene which one day on the — here 
bears to another, and which scarcely re 
us, and then sco 
hy and wild. The oms whi 
form the meaner as as wit the main riv- 
er were general miles wide; 
having a rich soil of eBack: feet mould, 
and, for a prairie ae well ee 
with wood. The country was everywher 
covered with a mene ble variety of 
ionally poor and thin, but far 
nt. ch. We 
marc y five 
Finding thae'as such 3 a rate of travel it 
would be er gar 
divide ape sg Sek, nving' Mr Fitzpat- 
fou wate onareeee men in charge of the 
pendence on | 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
- | Amo 
- | the characteristic plant of the country, and 
ne 
ich | which were ol timbe 
peuntons ns and heavier baggage of the 
to proceed cahowt in advance, with a 
party of fifteen me g with me the 
howitzer _ the lig light wagon which carried 
the instrume 
Accordin; or on the morning of the 16th, 
the parties separated ; and, bearing a little 
out from the _- with a view of heading 
some of the uents, after a few 
hours’ scare] te omaueal brok macmets 
we entered upon an peep = high level 
prairie, on which w par towards 
evening at a little re a single 
dry cotton-wood afforded thea necessary fuel 
for eo supper. Among a re of 
grasses which to-day made their first 
=] pearanes, "T noticed ee, ( festuea) 
and buffalo-grass, - (sesleria 
canescens (lead plant) continued 
row-leay 
cinea en ip i ay with a psoralia 
near pso a, and a ber of 
t the Sm kp. river, along 
whose trib- 
aries we continued to. travel for several. 
tos 
The geno d afforded me an excellent 
e being generally over high 
ee and we met. with 
being frequently 
cottonwood, — 
ter oe oc 
coccinea is very fre 
red patches on the high an 
and igh emarked thas: it eae 
pe 
The wild sensitive plant (schrantioraam 
On the Toth, in the afternoon, we crossed 
ed ie Deena oe 7 aepaadmeoeiaege 
ex 
io eae 
al 
ae an el bythe 
_sicmmtaiytlieanaipioaian 
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