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in letting the | 
s d pcan a suid through | 
the snow, an with a few others, | 
to pilot us a day or pati on the way. r 
travelling in an easterly direction through 
the wach it on prise four Dan we reached 
eam, with a f good 
ae oe ee the abe of our guides, 
we encamped. I t thirty feet wide, 
1843; ao which place, the line of our 
survey gives s an agg of thirteen miles. 
The day’s Linear miles, 
es — was over a 
was grass. oe 
ground, s Jie the high swamp grass ap- 
peared a The Indians were thinly 
clad, a nd = remarked rian, g the day that 
This eve 
e 
they told me that the snow was getting to 
deep eé mountain, ould not gn- 
duce to.go any farther. The,str 
me 
pon at 
comprehend that it pursued its way for a 
long distance in direction, uniting wi 
— other u becom- 
CAPT, FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
found his conduct inhospitable 
e|est were profoundly still; an 
eam | would be bed tc 
eams, 
a great river. Without the subsequent | 
information, which confirmed the 
imm 
opinion, | try, in 
pee Seated found. Travelling i 
rectio: 
but gradually as 
cending a mountain ; cae after a hard jour- 
ney of seven hours, we 
ing | places aes the timber, ee a few tufts 
of gras wed above the snow, on the 
,| side of 2 a go> peg and go ~ Ae. 
ur cow, which every day got poorer, was 
killed here, but the meat was rather tough. 
morn- 
t of our 
are ually rose veral spring | 
heads covered pity aaaking asp; otherwise ise | 
orest. e air was dark | 
everywhere weigh- 
The depths of the for- 
scarcely a breath 
of 
stan adhe sie coursé 
through the woods, when we were uncertaip 
how far the forest siinaie, or what lay 
beyond ; and, on ace s, 
clear ahead, appearing suddenly to termi- 
e€ ond a ce poin could 
see no trees. Riding rapidly ahead to this 
spot, we found ourselves on the verge of 4 
vertical and rocky wall of the mountaia- 
At our feet—more than a thousand feet be- 
low—we looked into a gr oun- 
, in which a beautiful lake, some t 
miles in length, was spread along the foot 
of th hile s| bordered with 
green en the sun broke out 
- | among the A Bb tag and illu d the 
try below, as around us the storm F 
fiercely. Not e was to be 
seen on the lake, or snow on itn, hore 
