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tains about the western heads a Green 
viserircthe Rio Werte of the Span 
ing the cp “here 
mely timbere 
the ‘road river, pate: bered shores 
ie 8, in > care to its 
obta ined = bs ane 
eipices of red rock 
wilder tribes who inhabit 
course, I have heard it calle 
refugees from a Californian — 
io Colorade. We halted t on at 
-eertain a prospect of 
\2 =. Indians have strange = pee of bese: 
th beaver, shut up 
rock in the lower 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
refieshing appearance "of w. 
even amo 
that portion of its | in 
by Indian |i 
here leaves the river, which 
— current, about 
incipally with ie and 
he re of sal 
r observations. 
wagons my a - completely aeacery the 
soil, that clouds of fine light dust are raised 
aking the road 
e 
ng our encampmenx 
DANG we tavelled along they 
mil 
ater 
myers ss of a willow, = in Sn ee is 
oe —— growth of gra 
road her averse — twelve miles 
across a te of pte river. Passing in the 
a two ne crores 
3 hundred feet high, with frequent and nearly 
pme n 
ridge o 
tains, plants have been very on in variety, 
alls | the eR a being covered principally with 
i 
river, a short distance above 
ic oshonee woman took leave of us 
here ecting to er relations 
at Bridger’s _ which is only a mile or 
two ‘of thi am. In 
{tho evening wo encam encamped on a salt creek, 
about fifteen feet wide, having —— 
a and flocks of sheep, 
© pasture in perfect security. 
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