at 32°.. T -day was occasionally 
extremely rocky, with leanic 
and our travelling very slow. 
group of apaning hot merings with a 
perature of The 
grou 
summer atmosphere that 
in a day of high and cold ‘sea 
The rocks were covered 
ey to 
several 7 yee and bubble up with fore 
the small pebbles pho 
~The following is mee wares of the depo- 
sit with which the rocks are incrusted : 
Analysis. 
Silica - - - - 72.55 
Ca te of lime - - - 14.6 
Carbonate of - - 1.20 
Oxide of iron - * = - 4.65 
lumi “ - mise - 0.70 
Chloride of sodium, &c. 
Sulphate of soda : 1.10 
Sulphate of lime, &c. 
Organic vegetable r x 5.20 
Water and loss ; 
100.00 
ese springs are near the foot of the ridge | w: 
. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
tem- | cou 
a few heli- 
. 3 ¥ 
] ering shrubs, d ll field 
roc 
e miles ' ete ee 
ais 
ts began to di psoas - 3 a 
isappear ; nteri 
among the hills at “the point of the aspen id 
we found = aie prenanig. Je 
e chara 
over an Sapa A 
tridentata. with fow- 
? 
hie Re SD A MR 1, “4 
cata, which gave bloom and gaiety to the hills. 
These were everywhere covered with a fresh 
I , 
ne ra iy olor - universal. The soil 
e rocks, 
ing for a time the pag isia (sage) 
through which w e had been so long voyag- 
and 
this as it may, beside is no ite abou 
25 
= 
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5.3 
* $9 
ma 
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(a ton and looking mountain), in | ed This a wiie feldspathic granite, with 
which some of nearer mabe have rege A small scales of black mica; smoky cy a 
ish eppearance, and consist of a | and garnets appear to constitute this 
poe 6 Nc papererss of which were | of the mou ne ga’ 
scattered along road after leaving the 2 at noon reached © broken ridge, 
road was now about to cross which were scattered many boulders 
point of this mountain, which we judged blocks of granite ; pi very eral 
to be a spur from the Salm mon riverrange. We Ss, where, with a little more than t 
crossed a small and mped about | usual timber, was imes a 
sunset on a stream, which is probably wilderness _ of =e wh a amped on 
river. This isa Il st some five or | small stream, ee tilde, in 
six feet broad. with a.swift current, timbe ts with a he \aten: Tempe 
pane es with willows and some few cot- | at sunset 51 1°; and night was 
Ani with a few stars visible through drift- 
ing white clouds. The Indians made an un- 
successful attempt to a few horses from 
us—a thing of course with them, and to pre- 
vent which the traveller is on perpetual 
—The day was bright, clear, 
tha temperature of 42 and we 
ed at sun the bir singing in 
the trees as as if we were in the 
nit of summer. the upper edge of 
