1843. 
y growth, among ae were several 
varieties or chenopodia ae ae 
er ma pre shea 
smaller saline neseree 
ing with ‘einipala’ luxuriance, and in 
many places holding exclusive possession 
of the ground.. 
On the evening of the 8th, we encamped 
en one of these fi resh-water lakes, which 
the traveller considers himself meets to 
find; and the next day, in latitude 
servation 490 20’ 06”, halted to noon im- 
mediately at the foot ‘of the southern side 
ng i eet 
Water valley, on the head of a small tribu- 
to that river. 
Continuing in the afternoon our cou 
down the stream, w prom von cuts directly 
through the ridge, a very practica- 
ble pass, we entered ihe? valleys and, after 
a march of about t nine aaa oe on 
ya preva ga ogame s by the 
of t i shetioes * expedition 
thect night ha having already ras ais parm : 
in-sto 
= reget 
twenty ‘miles above the Devil's gate, which wher 
we had” been able to see in comi 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
| further south than the one ro had followed 
mil 
the Baar g tod sae the valle 
on our return in 1842. 
near the table mountain, 
extremity of the 
near twent 
mF apo very 
out 7,000 feet; a pes 
good barometer enables 
more precision. 
recise notice of its loc and di 
from leading points, in addition to this 
statement of v A in 
the report of 1842, its latitude at the point, 
e crossed is 42° 24’ 32”; its a 
tude 109° 26’ 00”; its distance from t 
mouth ns rae esate by the common trav- 
elling ro ag om the sare of 
bead lane ates to. 
an 
asses the egon ; 
the broad smooth higeoay: “white the a nu- 
-merous heavy w 
tion, which the barometer here 
placed at at 7,220 feet; and during the night 
s}un 
- | assumed a be about half wa 
range of the Ore egon is about 1,400 
b common travelling route ; : so that, 
general polit of view, it may be 
+ honstiae the 
acifie ocean, on efor: 
Followi 
ithe a 
ee and the 
mmon travelling a 
ht and 
tl 
the 
days over el 
plains ; to which a aes rating 
uniform 
growth of 
sots lee 
ahi Pas ety : ‘ , 
Waters, and crossed it by a road some mi 
a rr yer 
t, | bank 
and on the ae of the 15th we en- 
xica) oe on the ee 
of Green shiny, OD es from t 
latitude 41° 53’ 54”, 1,031 miles 
from the mouth of the Kansas. we 
headin road to Oregon, which bears: 
— to avoid adeae 
