1844.} CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. | 131 
our way up the hollow, intending to Where re we had halted, appeared to bea 
what lay beyond the mountain. The hol. favorite mrs lace ve Indians. 
low was several miles ep forming a good| January 13 » We fo owed again a broad 
panes the snow —S ng to about a foot as | Indian trail along the = of the lake to | 
— ap tb Beyond, a defile | the southward. 
ean the tains descended rapidly | room enough in the beciaen: but, after trav- 
the lower space, was a heat of green wa- | foot of the igs ng mountains, the peaks 
ter, some ut 3,000 
on our eyes like the ocean. The neighbor- | lake. The ‘ta wound along the base of 
ing peaks rose high above us, and we as- | these precipices, against which the water 
ered one of them to obtain a better view. | dashed below, by a way nearl 
Vv 
their dark-green color showed it to a | of the morning the lake was nearly hid ‘og 
body of deep water. Fo gsi time we | snow storm, and the waves broke on the 
it almost entirely. At the western end it|in a bottom formed 
rushy shores an 
concluded it some unknown body of water ; | ment previously mentioned. ere were | 
which it ree ds proved to be. | chenopodiaceous and other shrubs along the | 
On our read down, the next day, we saw | beach; and, at the foot of the rocks, an | 
identalis, whose 
to which we hurried dow mediately. | Towards evening the snow began to 
e water is so slightly ale that at first, | heavily, fat ae country ad & a wintry ap- 
we thought it fresh, and would be pleasant | pearance. 
to drink when no other could be ay The| The next oarning. HF the snow was rapidly 
shore was rocky—a handsome or which’| melting under sun. Part of the 
u e 
s alon e gre 0 
hive been deposited by water, and has the other rocks along the shore, it seemed to 
cs Nagieagi ns ee been spread over the | be incrusted with calcareous ‘cement. This 
ocks in ma striking feature suggested a name for the 
; and Ie i 
lake : I called it Pyramid lake; and 
‘* The label a ge to a specimen of this | though it may be deemed by some a fanciful 
rock was lost ; walt arora an analysis of that | resemblance, I can undertake to say 
ed the speci-|the future traveller will find much more 
. striking resemblance between pres roc: 
"Carbonate or snonn Seat Mie agin “aie the pyramids « of Egypt, than there is be- 
; eae a 4: the sFinet Hegl Which they 
Alumina iy ‘lec 1.05 | take their nam 
n ‘ The Eiction of this lake above 
2% ie 
é 6.24 is 4,890 feet, being nearly 700 feet higher c 
__ "I than the Great Salt lake, from which it lies 
100.00 | nearly west, and distant about eight deg: 
