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which bore evidences of being much 
ted by the 
egreey fee 
7 feet in diameter, we halted 
and. 3 
‘for a few . in " foot 
the Blue mou on a branch o 
t 
Ottes were 
tately trees, iy 
which the balsam pine m made its appeara 
‘the road with thd smaebeite of 
one steep ascent, with a corresponding de- 
scent, which might both have been 
avoided by opening a wa’ 
below, as the night 
ae > acaba and we were 
obli 
3 the ieitats in which Gero was 
fe I — 
3,830 eet. Ita to have snowed on 
“terday on the mountains, their naan 
Caaiwing v ae white to-day. 
Oxtober 2 
ere was a ‘heavy white 
ft rng the nig wage and at sunrise the 
animals had — 
nigh acer -contim 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
— and in which the ——— 
a z 
_ 1843. 
cal figure. 
appeared from o hanate 200 
in heiglit the usual speincaierben be- 
to 12 feet, and i 
pine, which. have a | regularly coni 
v e 
Ty ad lately travelled, 
take a  pananait observation at the height 
of 4,460 fee 
After travelling semua through a 
a in con fores' obliged toc 
th 0 aly of ti imber, cm 
open mountain 
we ‘a und a paanie of small 
mped after a day’s journey 
Our elevation here was 5,000 
b —Ther very heavy 
white = a the night, ei the ther- 
tometer at sunrise was 30° 
We continued to travel through the forest, 
in which the was rendered difficult by 
fallen trunks, ad sctarta ym _ small 
trees, which it was necess own. 
But these are only perce ditinles, 
which could easily be r 
excellent road may be had chvoids this side, 
with no other than very moderate ascents or 
ot 
a 
declivities. A laborious day, which had ad- 
vanced us only six — ur road, brought 
us in the 
Ses 
, With good grass, and a large feds 
 stream—one of the head branches of 
the Umatilah river. During this day’s jour- 
y> ter was broken; and the. 
vations above , hereafter given, depend 
upon the temperature of boiling water. Some 
of spruces measured to- 
ts | day were twelve feet in circumference, and 
one of the Jescicn ten ; bas eight feet was the 
Se hs - measured 
along the ares I in my hand a 
line as I walked along, in order to Sens some 
of the timber. 
} Correct idea of the size 
All these trees have their branches, particu- 
larly the lower ones, declining. 
October 22. —The white frost this pent 
was like snow. on n the ground ; the ice 
in the 
tape ° 
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