1843.] 
miles or more. The river hills consist of | 
very broken masses of ate 
, covered every 
./ where with the same ‘nitoraitsable fields of 
, and occasionally the road i 
ery m 
them oddly and par itially isla in 
overcoat, shirt, waistcoat, or pantaloons, or 
whatever article of clothing they had been 
rocure in trade from th 
se, however, are 
edgerty sought ‘atten’ ‘and "or ‘a few trifling 
pieces of clothing, travellers may procure 
a 
food sufficient to carry them to the Colum- 
s 
ade a long stretch across the upper 
plain, asia encamped on the bluff, where the 
grass was ve nd good ; the soil of 
the e upper plains containing a considerable 
proportion of caleareous matter. This green 
freshness of the gr 
sant, with a sunset temperature of 
.—The morning was pleasant, 
srature at sunrise of 42°. The | te 
are leaving with 
which forms ve northern 
Great 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
e | Since 
fishing. 
on sage creek a whieh had 
by 
| gons abreast of row other, 8o as rch: 
a considerable mass against 
water. Th ri target informed us pg ao 
n attempting to turn some 
cattle which had taken a wrong 
as reget o — and drowned. . 
passage, 
odasidensly ; but, fortunate ly, 
ich was filled with air 
f | and launched ; and at oo ° "clock we were 
safely enca mped on 
of our aches: on 
the river was 42° 55’ 58" 
elled 
ctober. 4. 
a ng 
the river at a considerable distance to the 
i e me 
tes, we asce eae 
carpment of cular trap roc’ sup- 
plies the igh of the por below. The 
sky clouded « ~~. — se strong wind from 
the northwest, wi wiiger' # rain and 
e- nenmaiona sunli reht, pee e 
ure | 
_ Artemi a still covers the plain, but 
the bill sides 
ree 
ward: ntain, and found a good 
encampment, with wood and grass, and little. 
s of water in the bed of the creek; 
Thich must be of mote ins importance at 
seasons, as ee Sail a old fix- 
tures for re many 
been 
| clear, and a7 sunrise the thermometer was 
\ 
poe 
- ite a tree in size, é n the \ . 
