aot 
f atel 
where we landed, the high arable cae tly | 
which we sn been t ravelling for several 
days past term nated in extensive low yc 
iow Saale occupied by salt marshes, 0: 
s shallow 1 
d 
sho t  ack-barn willows ; the stream being | m 
and sluggish, a and sometimes 600 
d the 
west side of the sie filling the clear sky 
ai a —— ellen; These last rays, to 
0 prec. 
ne, soon diss 
and I obtained during the night emersions 
of the second, third, and fourth satellites of 
Jupiter, with ‘observations for time and lati- 
. 
—The morning was clear, | 
Sep. 3 
with a light air from the north, and the 
ther eter at sunrise a i 
‘O58 
distant; and in the meant time there 
was a a spot of grass 
animals. 
ound was so pa that we 
e gr 
could not ae high enough to see across tlie | 
d 
On the dey salt marsh ducks flew over the camp. | 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
not baae revealed a} was 
re/forcthe | rran 
marsh here, is scaree any} 
great 
| over. The para: with ‘the © 
crossed in the boat, and 
Descending the river for about three miles 
in the afternoon, we fo 
farther 4 travelling in 
stream being sprea 
evidently o oreo lake, me 
t 
though the odin and ganae = tail covered 
er was ered with 2 | 
a of willows and canes, among which © 
were : _ —_ ae w wth va scat- 
tered a marsh was 
se “closely allied “ U. spicata of our 
Phe 
Although the m 
semen rte ble ; and 
ning an oer: of the fir 
lite, ith the usu ore — ations: A 
neseiaatr observ 
; and, according to the 
| barometer, in elevation mai 100 feet above the 
e;| gulf of 
Mexico. Then s clear, 
considerable — whic oe “had remarked 
nee the ‘first of Septem 
hs: Deigte: who, in company wi 
,» had 
emigran 
vance of ‘Mr. Fitzpatri trick, and was about 
a his journey to Vancouver. 
about five miles up the seserd 
=e othe al 
pe stam difficulty in gettin, 
ed son: the Tefe-bank where 5 
