ture at the 
n the 
camped, w lofty column of 
, 16 miles State, indicating the pre- 
so, appeared 
had ascended appeared to be composed o 
fragments of white granite 
intering 
e ne ‘ahboun g valley, a 
and 
- crossing the bed of another lake, after a hard 
day’s travel nips ground of ast 2 mud 
and sand, we reached the where 
we found an abundance of gras, Shieh, | w 
though send tolerably ee made this plac 
, a refreshing uot q 
oe 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
Ni 
We saw here | i 
D 
[usaa., 
etation, to feel our way ahead, by having 
the line of pee explored some fiftee _ fF 
twenty miles in advance, and only to 
a a preneat encampment when the iscobait 
s know 
Sos with me Godey and Carson, I 
in the bo 9 papaya ns a good camp- 
ing place, where was water in go and 
a sufficient pale of grass tit 
peda aj Bed the sprin 
nd here a broad and plainly marked trail, 
This i z the most extraordinary locality of | on which there were track of horses, and 
hot springs w met during the journe e appe to have regained one of th 
The basin of the largest one has a circum- | thoroughfares which pass ed es watering 
ference of several handxes feet ; but there | pla he country. stern 
is at one > Sigg circular space of about | mountains of the Nove with which this v4 
fifteen fee Ag Haas rmgeng occupied 
by the boiling water. Itb irregu 
] 
he margin with a border of 
persing the water with a pole 
argin W 
in roma it was doubtles i gr 
xe. ara the oe pee towards the bottom, the 
boil up with increased 
pasty Pong "Phere are several other 
ng places, where water and smoke 
or gas ocages but they would require a 
ral ee ; and 
e of snow made it pleasant to 
Site the —— nei shaadi the val- 
xclusively 
ley botto 1 is covered almost 
with ah ses tin shite, greater 
‘wxuriance, and larger than we have 
- Seen them in any preceding part of the 
ah tained this evening some astronomi- 
sages situation now epired | caution. 
_— which gave o} 
the boiling spring communicates } 
marked scattered codare—probably an indi | 
tie that we were the borders of the 
timbered region extendiog to the Pacific. ; 
We hed the p at sunset, after a ° 
day’s ride of about forty ot — 
we rode were in good order, being o 
that were kept for emergencies, Sd rarely 
ed. 
Mr. Preuss had ascended one of the 
pave ped ane fae us day in sketch- 
g the c and Mr. Fitzpatrick had 
w of 
day to give them nity to reeruit | 
their strength. Indians appears o be 
where prowling about like wild animals, ond 
there is a Bric sh trail across the snow in the 
valley ne: 
Latitude of the siti springs, 40° 39’ 46”. 
9th we crossed over to thé cotton- \ 
ie ‘tie: ‘Aba ong the beni on the 4 
were a few bushes of ephedra occident 
> lowlands were 
oceupied with artemisia, While the party 
ea aes to this Spee arson and myself 
oitred the road in advance, arts found 
nee good encampment for the f 
Lee 
January 10.—We continued o 
issance head, pursuing a ort direction 
in the basin along ton ny fol- 
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