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mpment, the mountain trail from the 
Dalles joined that on which we were travel- 
ling. After or several miles over | 
an artemisia plain, the trail entered a beauti- 
el 
ne 
Saterally 200 fee 
rowed fe ani 
ee eiiven, whi deep. 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
—The mornin 
was 
warm sunshine made the day pleasant. 
To-day we h 
December 7.— ad good trav- 
elling ground ; the trail leading someti 
over fathet sandy soils in the pine forest, 
land along the 
stream 
ood e 
an open bottom, whieh h had been 
camping ground « of the Cayuse Indians. A 
indicating game in the — thood. 
onc te uniformly large ; 
pines ring 22 feet in 
the ‘ground, and 12 to 13 feet at six feet 
In al our api ne we had never tray- 
elled through a ntry where the rivers 
were - abounding in falls; and the nam 
singular] ee 
of the | li 
pifeeaitéretice at 
~~ 
dai ily surveys wit agree 
ably well. fertine® vee mutually pri 
ngthen each Sor The lati- 
of this st tude of the camp is 43° ’; and <<. 
At every snes kate re we — - the - | tude, ed from the fin diese 1219 
borhood of the river, is raring of | 33’ 50° 
rock: alo of the| December 8.—To-day we crossed the last 
stream, and the ledge over which it falls, is | branch of the Fall river, issuing, like all the 
ed basalt, with t lic | others we ‘had crossed, in a mgr tg ad 
The stream goes over in one| direction from the mountains. Our 
pitch, succeeded by a foaming | tion was a little east of south, the trail lead~ 
of several hundred yards. In the little 7 ing mame pine fo 
rests. 
bare tere in great- 
es erga 
a 
