1843.) 
were cat 8 icy aving breakfasted | c 
paces 2 eon a few — travel 
tered the pass of the Medic te, 
rhenmagh which led a broad trail, which had 
cr sees indie nth by a very large par- 
the pass, the road was | t 
and we were obliged to 
SS made their appearanc e 
hed eksvated regions. ceeacetion: to the 
recent this was 8,300 feet ; w! 
were detained in openi 
tained a meridional observatio 
which gave 41° 35' 48” for the latitude of 
the pass. The Medicine Butte is isolat 
by a small tributary of the North fork of the 
Platte, but the mountains approach each 
other he stream running at 
their feet. On the south they are smooth 
with occasional streaks of ; but the 
butte itself is ragged, with 
d feldspathic granite, 8 dark with pines ; 
the snow reaching from 
we came e 
brought into the cam p aco e 
fat on the fleece inches thick. Even 
in this country of rich pasturage and abun 
dant game, it is rare ‘that — hunter dhanees 
led to-day 26 m 
t 4. —The ae was clear and 
calm ; wach lea reek, we travelled 
pterr4 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
summit to within | 
as river, we 
cam 
eg hills closing in 
ng the 
the North fork “of the few: over | 
rou 
amps, broken a thermome- 
vas ar several — articles, when, rom 
o lose something of more impo: 
L halted for in night at 10 o’clock. Our 
re turned down towards th 
ed up the ra 
sen bran sat down hich 
ungry eough to mm delight 
alehouigh the buffalo meat was crusted 
wi Bias with oak 
a, 
the | hunters occupied until ae, id they sage 
out, but rejoined us at d sréale, ibe 
finding oarsetvel only shout & a mile from the 
followed the and 
ina age a on a beauti- 
ul grassy bottom, where pai distri 
Ere themasivées oe the scanty fare of 
he past night. It was quite a pretty and 
the upper end by a igo of low ro! 
hills, 
In the precipitous peat wae Breeton 
of 
a plain which h and | table remains, and several vera bed of coal, i 
broken by ravines. With the oa tees of | so the beds the 
| ee ne meine ing in es. 
ts and broad : or 600° 
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