formed strata of a very heavy and hard 
2 , having a pis ong 
lustre when bro keh. The over- 
looking the plain are of an entirely diferent 
Con 
ular quartz. 
ing from 
pact rock of a dark bei: olor a great 
ber of springs having agent ‘and 
disagreeably 
the w: at a considerably | a 
lower level, is Sans lig pat or basin of very 
elear water, and apparently of Be groan 
dept ia bottom of which the gas 
was escaping 
places. This water was anes ed ir 
small stream, which, in a few hundred putts. 
sank under ground, iwaee among the 
rocks between the two great springs near 
the river, whic it entered by a little fall. 
_ Late i afternoon I 
mns at on 
etric observation gave 5,840 feet for 
the gulf, being about 
ec "Boi oiling springs, 
nature, at the foot of 
mical 
“he morning of the 26th was calm, and 
— clouds, but smoky ; an 
3 sunrise 28,59, Atanas 
ure of the large Beer 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
n, I} aga 
[1843. 
that of the Steamboat s; spring 87°; and that 
of the steam hole, hear it, 81.59. In 
Remaining in camp oath ove i o’clock, 
we acted « short distance down the riv- 
k a 
ays’ eee for 
n examination of — at lake 
ich is the outlet of this iver, = the 
Casio ea ips of geographical interest in 
the _ sin, was one of the nue cts c 
re ently at Fort Hall. 
ock of provis ion zs had again become ex- 
low ; we had only qed meat sufi. 
ient for one meal, and o 
t 
any claim to them; and on 
I mainly rates for support during our cir- 
1y cuit to the 
tain which runs me 
river here passes. 
tion, from the ri ™m 
curs, and its pa distinctness 
surrounding rocks 
ace 
seen on the cragey poin 
As we we 
Toney enderal bytobsn 
to 
tI 
on its way 
the lake. | 
the » 
wil 
of e 
whites 
