el 
‘a camp at our usual hour at the foot 
s travel this morn- 
ing os oat us into ae: fertile and pictu-|s 
resque valley of ‘Bear river, the principal 
tributary to the Ph Salt lake. The 
stream is eet wide, fringed with 
willows and ccasional groups s of a 
nt 
We 
famous ‘lake whith Soot sa 
mong the remarkable geographical features 
of the country, and around which the vague 
gination. 
e wandering through = 
country in search of ne w beaver stream 
caring very little for Ponders ; its is sands 
visited ; and none were 
be found who had entirely: made the eisanat| 
and no instrumental obse: 
of its shores ; 
tions or 
- eaighinring region 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
in; but we found them with- 
ed wera 
t point|n 
sak limit oe the Uni 
been seen only by | at 
[1843. 
grants—two and several chil 
dren—who sfeehiek tock to be bringing up the 
rear of the great fc I - struck 
with the fine appea: cattle, 
some six or eight vohskl of 0 oxen, ‘chick really 
looked as well as if they a ess as the 
at work on som It 
was strange to see one sil Bocily fave 
ling oie gs such a ty so remote 
from civiliza e years sice; 
such a securi ty y might bets ‘a a i = one 
but since their disastrous defea 
low~ 
abitin ng. at 
ecording to baro pivot observation at 
oon, the pi tion of the valley was 6,400 
feet above the sea; and our enc ampment at 
ned Ss ray ei 42° 03' 47”, 
b Sieaitvition-the 
journey “having been 26 miles, This en- 
as therefore within the territo- 
v 
having been to the Sheth of the 42d degr 
of north latitude, oe Baggage 5 seri on Mexi- 
can territory ; an the route all the 
and 
a distant m shed 
storm, with a light breexe ge the north. 
Antelope and elk w een during the 
a on a. oe prairie mere there were 
en and geese in the river. 
The next morning, in about three miles 
from our encam i 
It was genera illow es a 
‘supposed that it had no o visibla “tear ws debouchement: throug pass about 600 
among the trappers, including those in my | yards wide, ih intain © 
own camp, were many who 0 beloved that | hills, rising abruptly on either side, and fe 
somewhere on its surface a terrible | ing ig columns to the gate by which it 
Berton: rect which nate lashes: — enters Bear valley ’ 
their way to the o e sub H $uene below § Smith's fork had been two 
communication. All these Pag wide, narrowed, as we aces toa 
made a frequen of discussion in our | gap 500 ee aes aan during the greater 
con ons around the at | part of the ee we a winding route, 
t; and my own mind had become toler- river making ve on nonce 
| ir indefi i ky, and the val- 
i hth ley era so narrow as only to leave 
ea? for a passage through. 
We made ou our halt at noon in a fertile bot| 
"Ito om, where th blue flax was grow- 
with a family of 
ed our voaddewa: the river, 
tiful | ing abundantly, a few miles below the mouth 
of Thomas’s of one of the larger tribu- 
us | taries of the rive 
nly 
Crossing, in the afternoon, the road of 2 
‘narrow spur, We descended inte a beautiful 
