ea 
a little con T left 
tinving on up the river, halte d t0 
took our 
the bluff, as the herons are almost outils: 
ted ; voreigawdh in the a 
misty, and hide ded—threatening a 
the snow peaks sometimes littering Rigas 
the tame beyond the first ridge 
We surp 
ge. 
ised a grizzly bear rahi 
~ imselfu 
and he mbled into the river and swam 
to the opposite side. We halted for the 
night a little above cue i creek ; the eve 
ing clo y mosquitoes om 
ing with m Some 
indifferent ebservations placed the camp in 
latitude 39° 43’ 53”, and chronometric lon- 
rt 
so to-day to travel 
with a 
stone Laramie fork. On i 
and rently very near, but deobably 80 
10. les rae arse Ns or hia thousand 
feet of the 
mountains, like a yet eiraned fay, in clear 
nd, rose en ttering five 
nd feet above them eanght this 
morning a view of Pike’s seilk but it ap- 
peared for a moment only, as Saitioa rose 
early | over the Jasper and shrouded them 
in mist ; 
visible, as sd ahi 
alee rbly at evening we more 
of. a thunder storm. At n recy son and at 
St. Vrain’s fort, w 
ah on southern fork of the he Plt, 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
oute } ban 
quaking 
beautiful natelne which we had not 
met, Amo 
polas of fi 
n all the day. In the firet beet 
Red hina 
- beau 
one of these remarkably shaped hills, The 
. flat rock two. 
‘which it has ps 
[sas 
On the easternmost branch, up bin we 
Ww we ame among the 
pines growing on the top of a v ts igh 
, an we bi it to noon; | 
asp (populus tremuloides) was 
xed with the cotton-wood, and there were 
Secell tic grass and rushes for the animals. 
During the increta there occurred many 
hitherto 
ng them, the common blue Rower-/ 
ing its firs st appearance ; anda 
and handsome species of gilia, w 
with slendef 
as very frequent ore 
aad very little game s 
leaving the fort, and tw wat began tb Ne et 
tly had h 
sleep anothe 
pies" had the g 
dee whi ch he found fee 
”b nd 
rta 3 
To-night ben Beit i'w girdled with ap- 
et d cheerful in 
spite of the went iy ¥ we: 
July 9.—On seat OF The low state of 
our provisions and the scarcity of game, 
determined 
severa 
of falling in i A yd buffalo. 
along g grounds between = 
South soot of the ‘Platte and the Arkan 
o afford some additional yoogtatie 
ical information. 
we 
iant grass, flowers 
er of different apron itn oh 
o give it a varied beauty, except gam 
ing on the summit a cir 
or tee hundred pm 
ne gave the name of . 
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