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many py ays. Our el 
* good view over the county, but we dis- thoug 
rey 
am 
r grass than we aw: found for 
evated position gave us 
ove net very e outh- 
slong the ridge ; ; and this 
to continue our Jowmers in that direction. 
December 24.—We 
ine lake tolerably pa and encam a at the 
farther end. There were some grass | a 
0 a As ong la mahi and ve vegeta- 
s place consisted principally o 
a intense: shrubs. 
December 
small arm 
plapheaill sabetell the 
which we bestowed on the lake. | 
first time, perhaps, in this remote and deso- 
late region, in which it had been so com- 
, on days of religious 
ional commemoration, our voyageurs 
t some cacoadl. allowance ; and, hav- 
coffee and sugar, 
which here, api every eatable wasa jux- 
was s ent to make them a feast. 
e- 
& 
a) 
in on the right by a lofty m 
The plainly Sateh: trail still poner nd 
occas 1 digo passed camping groun 
the Indians, which indicated to me that w 
f the great corr pone of 
In the afternoon I attempt 
oS 
7 
there creamli 
Selooesi. 6 Bag a clay soil and 
Chenopodiaceous shrubs constituted the 
growth, and aie e again our firew 
animals were.driven to the hill, where there 
was tolerably good grass. 
December 26.—Our general course was 
The country consists of 
smaller basins, get es the 
mountain waters run ng tie! big ; + | i 
lakes ; the otc a ect leve om 
week ia dea i el a 
tly. Between the successive basin: 
y ve ry slight; 
the —_ of 
again south. 
larger or 
rising among ; 
though | galloping up, we found two huts, open 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
und the water of|n 
t 
which were ¢ 
nds and as. 
into the 
127° 
now we find scaréely more than the dry 
be either side, the mountains, 
not very high, appear to be rocky 
i The basin in Oe anich we were 
the southwest 
ight on a rapid, 
—_ water, which w 
ong the sage Pate 
right side of the val 
r partially froze 
belongs to ear basin w Bh left. By 
en 
to-night, 0 was 
found * re ayaa on the 42d parallel. 
a horse belonging to Carson, one 
of the a we had in the camp, was stoleif® 
by the Indians. 
December 27.—We continued up the 
gc “A nee gy scone ve ee ry 
f high 
peerage we found 
the snow about one or dee 
some pesanipeuict large cedars sad ao aa 
ered 
ges, 
fers 
water, and enc ong 
the bordering pi, akan the snow was 
| about one foot deep. Among this the 
had lagemiges. if any more horses were 
stolen, to. follow oe the Indians 
mountains, and put a temporary 
check to their sly haectage; but it did 
not occur se ares 
Our this meni lay down a level 
valley, bond red by steep mountainous 
ridge rising very sheuptly from the plain. 
was the principal plant 
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lar so: foot in diameter 
and eight feet high. Riding ly along 
ove’ snow, we enly upon 
