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son to believe that this, pass- | 
ing nearer the ieals of cae streams, 
would afford a much better road. 
At such places, the gun carriage w —— 
CAPT, FREMONT’S NARRATIVE, 
(1843. 
ever, good ; and give for the letitnge of the 
place 44° 35’ 23”, and for the longituds 
from the mente 121° 10’ ty 
December 1.—A short soennne: abors our 
limbered, and separately descended by hand. | encam cats d this r, which 
Continuing a swt pe up the left cae of | was thickly lined along its ay math ice 
the: Bes we arly in an open} In common with all these mountain stre 
bottom among the the: bison haheni ieaee nce be- | the water was very clear, and the current 
Jow a lodge of Indians. ere, along nae swift. It not. everywhere fordable, 
river the bluffs present escarpments se and the water was bus a sont Jeet deep at 
or eight — feet in height, saacaae our crossing, and 
strata of a very fine porcelain clay, — 
at the height of about five hundred fee 
chalk, ery fine. grained. Specimens 
soa Take these Rave been aA Goh to 
opical examination 
oin 
ng them 
agg beyond a doubt. 
qually certain that they lived and died a 
the Gsisnion where they were found, as ne 
sya a 
sicidlen bg 
are dh re 
fresh-water ori 
y Soe 
s | into molas 
ously de- | the 
tected by Mr. sit Bailey in specimens rere sy 
D from 
es got 
shir this was a m : 
t several seen scree 
ong Pp 
22 
-O 
the bottom I saw a 
twelve feet in diameter. 
fom the heat ope es Reare® 
by the 
a 
she 
ved bad too 
much to part The se Ror attach 
great value ‘6 gules with which they are 
endiceraring ie supply them 
a mber 
selve 
the first rays of the sum, 
this epee presented 
e sn 
Dec —In 
mountain Bas 
au pe 
might belong to extinct 
red them also as afford 
in the Ghaacok 
of fres 
all river. 
ing to a more es 
have been. in 
nsils 
off among the pines anpeseae tes and 
several men w were sent back to arch for it. 
{Tily slowe 
ew men, in exes. to, gain: SR 
as our propane with the gun was. necessa- 
The country continued 
the 
ant 
snow, 
