53° CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. > 
— abundant on the higher parts of the 
une 21.—During the forenoon a trav- 
elled up a Asmat of ~~ reek on which 
ed, in ical ‘eenierss 
, we had encampe 
whete, howerer the dividing xi ridges aa i 
road, ; were fe 
and with the set sward | of the buffalo 
grass, hegre now 
0 the prairies a smooth and mos 
t a solitary cotton- 
hollow, near which was killed the 
buffalo, a large old bull. 
red = bands during the 
the affluents of the 
ac 
g, and thunder ; eae 
in hiaboniees: According to a: 
vation 2,130 fee 
the gulf. 
At noon, on the 23d, we descended into 
of of the Re- 
e notes 
foliaged ash, 
a and siecad maple. With these 
were 
long- owen willow, We gave asthe decece 
a of Prairie 
very where, | tached 
iver, stru 
‘owe denaiite ae the treeless 
Ls 
[1843. 
soil made their appearance in abundance. . 
A few miles rhea pee we entered the valley 
of a large m, afterwards ears to be 
the it ag fork of the Kansas, 
features of ~ country 
i e 
sees in keeping. On the opposite sey 
the broken ridges assumed almost a moun- 
— = aera ce ; and fording the 
ued on our course among thes 
‘ga ms ried re-set late in the evening at 
a = lise pond of v 
running st an y 
constantly Galton on account of the uncertainty 
of water, which was only to be (found in 
e hills. The oe - a 
maths: pleasure to the 
them were gene: pen is, w 
forded abundant pasturage fo nim 
re were usually satlected herds of the 
buffalo, which now were —— over all 
the country in mber 
The soil of baer: and hot sande Praia 
varied and exuberant a of \ 
which were much 
we found ourselves overlooking a broad 
misty valley, where, — 
and 1,000 feet below 
& 
oF 
our tents on the shore of the 
Tray p the valley ¢ pi 
river, here Sy 4.00 eta e the 
afternoon Pegg 
we ; 
had previously found them, sua whose showy [ 
| general sterility. Cr rps 
a 
