1843.] 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. Bet 
to a voleanic plain, around which lofty hills| of quartz and  reddish-colored _ silicioun 
sweep gular form. masses. i 
gullies of basaltic rock, escarpments of | November 29.—We emerged from the 
h ap eryw ills, | basin, by a narrow pass, a considerabla 
This plain is called the Taih prairie, and is | branch of Fall river, oaths to _ east- 
sprinkled with some scatter The oan se ugh a narrow 
country is ar more interesting to a| descending bo s stream, peers us ro a lo- 
traveller than the per ng t ake springs, which were on 
/ wa: ountains, fii ths 
whose dark pine forests the isolated ay 
peaks were looking out like Jes They 
rved us for grand beacons 
unt Hoo 
dicots and, 
prairie, we obtain gas a oe fe Mount Jef- 
erson, o The I superstition 
has peopled these lofty sake with evil spir- 
the 
wy 
almost Abobstble to climb ion: but al a 
trial would have its attractions for the ad- 
eelitnt duit tra veller A small trail takes off 
in 
n early encampment. 
mili; and rahe et wale 
e for che animals to 
hi 
blesome to ate, was killed here rm 
The e evening was fine, the ve roi a very 
of the 
Es: s ives for ite: e login 1 121° 02’ 43”; the 
psa set , being 45° 06’ 45”. 
The wight. was vox Ooms enn ee dur- 
Roe the nae wenn tn 
November 28.—The sky wa 
samenett but suddenly cundoa ve a and at 
"i ae eatin, snow, with the thermome- 
ter at 
‘covered 
_ ten miles, to the foot of the Cascade moun- 
rks ie ba aoe bank 
ee ENE Pe: 
with bisa, rege hr about | pi 
se being at 89°. mg se were ‘others, on 
ns tomes i at the 
ent, in w 
34°. 
the spring a breeciated ma 
par ~ seen much of it of a reddish color. 
We crossed the stream and ascend- 
- agit to a high pliin, cae an elevated 
which we obtained a vitw of 
of 
eP, of the great pe caks—Moun Jerson, sented 
of t 
ed to the southw: eee 9 
same class ; and s 
er distance to the southwa: re 
other lower peaks, clustering Soest ina 
branch ridge. soe e, like ae eat peaks, 
e — secondary only to 
e best examtiotiboeil our 
ne 
the range to pee they belon 
m the great chain which here 
trail d 
of the day followed near to 
e large serial on the left, which was con- 
tinuously walled in between high rocky 
ban We halted for the night on a little 
nysatibaia: 
November 30.—Our journey to-day was 
short. Poisiny over a high yet on which beds | 
were eet cedars, with frequent 
voleanic rock in 
rosie 
remark that 
moony is abundantly wa watered with large 
h pout down from the neigh- 
vertical preci- 
and sehich leave only 
casual places at which they can be ent 
road across the c 
04 by horses. The country, 
At evening we encamped in a -| which would otherwise be very - a 
wly surrounded by rocky hills, after a| rendered i ticable for wagons by these 
day’s journey of 21 miles. The 'streams. There is another trail among the 
ay dndabiyeras yoleanie products, or | mountains, usually followed in the summer, 
-y alte xd by ‘ Sa dines - ee tT ee 
