1843.] 
The morning was calm and clear, with a 
white frost, and the temperature at sunrise 
24°. 
To-day the country ee a fit forbidding 
appearance; and, after travelling 20 miles 
_— a slightly “indulating plain, we en- 
camped a nsiderable ing, call 
Swamp c k, pen in low unds near 
the point of a spur from the mountain. Re- 
turning with a small party in a starving con 
dition from the ward 12 or 14 years 
since, C. here three or four 
buffalo t which we ee 
ull 
They i among the pioneers which h 
e experiment of colonizing in the 
of the Columbia, and which had 
vercast, 
SE, aad night we we had only sage for fire 
wood. the artemisia was a 
goa an thorny scbadipidiaasots plant. 
ome is 
/ 40°. BE reas early to a from 
the west, raed cold driving rain ; and, 
after an uncomfortable day’s ride of 25 miles 
we were glad when ~ eons g we fd nda 
sheltered camp, where there was an abun- 
e moun- 
marked, among the sage 
bushes, green bunches = what is called the 
~eigerlh insted of gra e river 
a rare free from 
rapids, with a low, sandy hill slope ele gies 
ed bottoms, in which there is a little 
ermome 
a atl and dinagroeaby co 
So biter pt at sun- 
rise 36°, sae a bri and a 
of finer weather: 
td Hn several miles 
e, 
ae 
i 
pointing out 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
|—as 
side, the Salmon river mountains are visible 
at a great distance. Having made 24 miles, 
we encamped about 5 o’clock on Rock creek 
tream having considerable ete swift 
current, mpage wooded ee mae 
presen 
‘in foam at paces where the | the 
28°, In its progress towards the re rive, is 
bed, and steep banks, ‘oieted with tocky | 
e soil a 
rll of f' calcareous poms with whieh. the 
ocks are incrusted. ments of rock 
whieh had been retved bars i 
ze 
ples ee tened — 
lime ; and during the afternoon h 
marked in the eo a considerable quantity iat, 
calcareous concre' wards evening | 
ae clear 
the sa 
, | Spaces were occupied by tu 
The river still eae ie course wpe: ough 
nd towards sunset 
a trou cafion; an 
we followed the ‘trail of several wagons w which 
had turned in towards Snake river, and en- 
amped, as had done, on the top of the 
e was no here, the 
il a being ly naked ; 
but there is occasionally a little bottom along 
he river, which a short ravine of rocks, 
at 
rare intervals, leaves accessible ; and by one 
of these we drove our animals down, and 
found i tolerably good grass 
the w 
“immedi 
r bursts o 
tely opposite to us, a subterranean 
J ut directly from the face of the 
sunset 45°, blowing | teristic 
oT 
Se ipa with willows and a little grass on \ 
bo to be 
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