wagons,) we continued on 
down the valley of the aes. bordered by 
high mountainous hills, on which fires 
[eller for the first time in a 
ar as we could ascertain, were entirely 
confined to that foealiag 3 in the botto In 
the of the river, in front, for a cede of 
several hundred yards, they were very 
rain. a the effervescing gas rising up 
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the day 22 miles, ree bed in latitude (by 
gitude 111° 42’ 05”. 
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towards 
Lake. A prety little 
stream of clear water enters t 
of the ba 
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the course tes! a few 
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observation) 42° 36’ 56”, chronometric lon- t 
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bing columns. In the vicinity round about 
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re numerous springs of an — differ- 
en ~ equally marked mineral character. 
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though it vs maintained in a constant supply, 
its greatest height is jog only at regu- 
lar a according to the action of the 
orce below. It is pacientes 
erranean noise, which, er with the 
a motion of the water, makes very much the 
impression of a steamboat in motion; and, 
without knowing that it had been already 
: ile : 
-| of the Steamboat spring. The rock a 
— it is peechearg is slightly raise 
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into an eatin ed form, and is a ca 
formed by continued dencnitees: from the 
in| water, and colored bright red by oxide of 
of this deposited rock. 
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and, pass ing through the dey at inch in diame 
tains, 
_eharges into Bear river. Crossin 
g this| interval 
| stream, we descended a mile below, and| lig 
of ceda 
taste, have received their name from the 
trappers of fa country, who, 
in the midst of their rude and hard lives, 
are fond of some noe resem- 
to the Haman thoy rarely have the 
us, 
several years since passed by this is place, and 
who Beane with very nice observation, 
