ee 
: same delightfi 
oa. the sky of the same beautifal blue 
we had i >| 
pt gn the crossing of every dis- 
played some unknown lake or river, we were 
re almost afraid to believe that we at 
it to escape into the genial ntry of 
ich we heard so many glowing de- 
scriptions, a: ded again to me 
vast interior lake, whose bitter waters would 
ng us disappointment. On the southern 
shore of what appeared to be the uld 
traced the gleaming pe be 2 entered 
another large stream ; + n the Buena- 
ventura rose up in our 
Cars 
rm of e bay, get remembered 
an tly to have crossed the mouth of a ve 
rge e's which they ay pee obliged 
raft; but the country then was so en- 
tirely per with water from snow and 
rain, that he had tiie sik a ee no cor- 
rect impression of w 
We had the Lo aah to g fae that at 
appeari. 
Ts; an og signs of 
e 
> hey Soper: so near, tha 
be fires that had been kind 
ans among the cot aig on the shore of the 
bay, 80 miles dista 
Among the very (oe pany tg that appeared 
here, was the common blue flax. To-night, 
a Oi was killed for food. : 
ast was OV 
among the timber; 
searched out the coldest places, and the ani- 
mals passed successfull y with their loads 
the hard crust. Now and he delay 
happily succeeded in ing the camp 
‘asrce: and encamped on the hes. after 
march of : hese had again 
Prospect o -sto rey | and. to- 
night we killed sae mule—now our on! 
resource ti 
We satisfied ing the day 
that the lake had an outlet between two 
Yanges on the right; with this, the 
creek on which I had encamped p y 
effected a j below. Between these, | ou' 
we were 
descending. 
‘We continued to enjoy the ful 
i ° 
entered the valley along the 
m | mocassin 
aicath at Sm Palermo. 
which a ait tle ae ia. seg shows are in 
the same latitu 
The cents alive the sea, by the boiling 
point, is 8,565 fe 
February 23. o this was our —_ difficult 
afforded u 
these were “seep, oa slippery w with sno 
and ice igh evergreens of the 
mountain ietel ¢ way, tore our skins, 
and exhausted our pheno Some of us 
had the misfortune to wear m 
ee rfleche soles, so slippery that we could not 
eep our feet, an “s — crawled across 
the snow beds. Axes s were ne- 
ery to- est ) pee a road yaar the 
sn ahead with Carson to re- 
nanctiee he et we reached in the after- 
noon the river whith made the outlet of the 
lak rso ver, clear across @ 
place where the stream was pressed 
among rocks, but the parfleche sole of my 
lanced from ie icy rock, and 
precipitated me into the ri It was some 
few s before I chit recover myself 
rwards found that the gun had been 
slung enn the ice which lined the banks 
of the 
Using on our old plan of breaki hace toad 
with alternate horses, we reac 
in the evening, 36 encamped on a i 
gg erg branch, _ we had followed, 
left ; and from this 
ie 
— 
nae 
rg ; were giving 
February 24.—We rose at three in the \ 
a for an 
£; 
the place a latitude of 38% 
afternoon grass was 
rnlicitne. ioe of the men mg tn | 
some thi 
t 
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