tan‘, were the white walls of the 
fort. The Portneuf runs along the upland 
- oaapbngge nearly to its mouth, and an abrupt 
nt of — 200 feet brought us down 
immediately upon the stream, which a 
wide, hree feet ns tone 
‘clear water, a swift current, a 
Meg higher up the breadth 
the bottom 
number of a ve ie ih remark- 
ably clear water and 
who came on oe os Hall when we went to | P. 
the lak we had the erage: 
to find al well, neither party havin ith 
Cc 
i 
any mis in Fon our sepa 
ration. They, t had their share of 
fatigue and scanty provisions, as there had 
igration It 
hdl rigidly b hu sbanded oa stink of flour and 
poe provisions, in view i the approaching 
j 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
t the | wou 
eore with comma deep _ 
ry great | ble hard 
beds. At) sunset 
d Ca 
esson, M. Creely, Fran- 
gois Lajeunesse, Basil unesse. Among 
se, I tted very pai —— Basil . 
sacha one of the best my party, 
win was obli ged, by the condi of his 
family, to be at home in the coming winter 
r preparations having been oe om 
bin Pants of <n usd here, both part 
re ready this 
et reg 
orning to resume their 
before us. genet ene there is a greater quantity of 
—This ‘morn ing et wood n its construction, Fort Hall very 
very dark sia F aapsee at day i it yee ig posts whic 
orld thickly, and coninved coe day, rg been sole desoribed to you, oar 
with cold, disagreeable weather. sunrise | would be another excellent post of relief for 
the temperature was I a to emi, It is i low, rich bottom 
fort, and pure Mr. Grant (the | ofa sie apparently 20 miles long, formed 
officer in charge of the post) several ve uence 0 river with 
necal. 
once Night came in 
whic 
great iatisfertion:; =e one being killed at 2 
evening, gaiet) humor 
e at pact 
t ut nine miles below the fort, and 
narrowing gra dual to the pats of the 
nack river, where i 
t has a breadth of 
Allowing 50 miles 
ngs 0 
» its along the 
from the town of West wtt, on 
