a 
Lag tg with bunch grass, sufficient to pas- | f 
re the animals two or three days; and|i 
surface are scattered lar, 
rous trap. The hills are in many plac 
itd bec with small fragments of vo 
on our snow shoes, we en the 
The 
as veils, bind much relieved 
Februar. 
—Hich wind earkintied, and| wee 
area ary, bain a strong exercise of p 
tience and resolution. 
In the evening I received a pages from 
Mr. Fitzpatrick, pie re nting me a 
utter failure of his a eters a ee our m 
Stig ht to sup- 
port them, and t 
- and were plunging sot or lying half buried |i 
occupied in endeavoring 
tion 
finmediatély back to their old pastures ; and, 
mauls and shovels, tu 
ge 
~ beat a road through the snow, strengthening 
it with branches and boughs of the pines. 
ebrua as, made mauls, a 
end of the road all the 
Bee 
oth it began 
to aed ate cold, “and we bron gu we our mauls, 
and trudged back to 
February 15 We enn inued to labor on 
the road ; and i - ath course of the day had 
the satisfaction workin 
down the face of at opposite hill, about 
ing the evades ng Pt 
f the moun 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
e | arriv: yea ‘with a supply 
i 
silk isis hel which worn - 
av 
e half- uae 
the 
ing ow 
D 
encam 
; and 
The niet train did a ao this evening, 
depig A kill our little dog, 
iter he “prepared in Indian 
and wash- 
nto pieces, re laid 
Short! y ferward the sleigh 
of hors 
we had to-night an extiaed iby hak 
bib oer soup, ae nd 
og. 
February 14.—The dividing ridge of the 
Sj 
lien 
length, and so page surroun 
ould not discover an outlet. 
half hidden in aad as when we had 
be aiattngciahoe nein i 
as t 
eons mass of i arte 
the lower parts appeared to be of a ‘slaty 
structure. Th st trees were a few 
scattering ceda nd as Fr 
hing t 
ter in descend 
u 
the mountain in all the places ; but 
their surface freezes instantly with the dis- 
appearance of the sun 
I obtained to-night some observations ; and 
nob m these, and others made ’ dur 
5 ave for the la latitude 38° 41’ 
57", Tentacle 120° 25! 57’, and rate of the 
chronometer 25'’. 
Parry 16. —We ee 
ting our animals safe fet ery 
hi tegen morning 5 eter with J 
on a reconnoitring ition beyond the 
rnin on We ee along the crests of 
arrow ridge ing down from the 
mountain in ee direction of the valley: from 
whi was fast melting away. On 
grass ; and 
where at last the water found its way to the 
| Pacific. 
in-| The night was clear and 
heard the 
very long. We 
cries of some wild animals, which 
rata ryeaninee 
