anatere oe 
esalaie Wathen spring of pure 
eral 
night, with a thunder vers ata dist: 
September 5.—Before us was evidently 
the bed of — rs being a great salt marsh, 
ectly level and bare, whitened in places 
saline pt amiemete with here and there 
nd having the a 
jeter 
great 
psimert = a _ a a plants, which 
appear to rubby salicornia, or a 
dt 
Abo mile es sto se southward was one 
of ewe clased i 
abundant water plant with a white blossom. 
There was good 
-(e jij purcum) which I here sa 
for the fi oer time. 
Clear creek. 
We “continued our er soit the moun- 
y mark- 
rose-colore: 
granular stig: is evidently. an al- 
; the lines of de- 
It is rock 
moun 
Were sev ey nese — prob- 
species, the still green ; 
thickets of 
anew 
miry 
; —- wane which were 
We named the sciitin gre 
86 CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. [ 1843. 
At sae the ee t| In one of these, the thermometer stood” at 
350, and there was some rain daring ths 136°, and in another. a t 1329.5 
and the 
water, which spread in pools over the low 
ground, was color as 
At — 
in, 
view rs enteri 
= om trail we had been follow- 
me oo with 
a. Weber’s fo 
red off towards the lake, and en- 
amen on this a Sasori as 100 to 150 
feet wide, with hi and vei 
pure water, Suan o- slightest i indication 
of s 
alt. 
Rarer mtr ite the encampment 
early, we n directed our weer the 
peninsular aie abr a low s hrubby plain, 
crossing ze the w with 
8, vies Stone d ain civic aia of 
e loaded with | 
This time we reached the butte 
withihet any difficulty, and, ascending to the 
slough 
| summit, a at our feet beheld the 
object of © xious search—the waters o! 
the Inland Sea, sivetchaae’ in still and soli- 
ur far beyond the om of our 
of the 
erm over 
emotions of en plea- 
sure, | am doubtful if the followers of Balboa 
felt ee vege. = ree "the heights 
of the r the first time the 
were looking, a storm burst do 
den fury ge npeirsclt a Es 
ialaade froun ulti viaw e could 
see, along Seen aca 
analysis of the red earthy matter de- 
* 
ns posited inthe bed ofthe ream fom the springy 
gives the following rest 
eta ba iron — 
C. cae 
chert tir a ba 
Sulphate of 
