146 CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
46’ 58’’; longitude 120° 34/20", The s 
was clear and San with a sharp w wind 
from the seen a the thermometer 2 
below the 
We Ghithiosd tien the south face of the 
mountai I g over dry ground, 
‘we were able to avoid the snow almost en 
tirel cours ing, we 
struck 
ld. reen s began to mak 
appearance, and occasionally we passed 
a hill scatteringly covered with it. T 
| ch r of the forest continued the same ; 
with sharp 
and, among the trees, the pine 
Ls very e sik Bn ati 
some of them eae ie 
2 
inf 
0 feet. its 
g, the river was a roar 
very great: eng descen ng with a 
ae to aee had been 
ong 
, to o + Syveke: pleasure oak trees 
Siedarat | on the’ ridge, and soon became ver 
quent; on these I a unusually 
great quantities of aernnine 
to make their appeara and at a small 
pene where they were F aetilant: one p oft the 
messes was left wit oT weakest horses, 
while we continued o 
steep and cntinns—untrok en by ravines, 
and cov with ae and snow; while 
the we velling, dhiainiderile 
rivulets poured ph le the rid Con, 
| tinuing on, we halt 
these rivulets, to admire some bea 
Shaved th es, resembling live oak, which 
Ad little stream. They were forty 
igh, and two in eit with 
oghs f top ; and the summer green 
of “et faut beautiful foliage, with the singing 
ts 
/ ee which 
{ Was ‘sharing a about the dry ak cleaves, nearly 
‘intoxicated us with delight ; rri 
fil 
a te ma ve 
ie act of ths se eoat 
pa 
and | de 
elevation of 3,864 
the horses, ‘shang tho 
miserab 
1844, 
F 25.—Believing that the diffi- 
culties of the road were pass leaving 
Mr. Fitzpatrick to follow slowly, “ts the con- 
dition of the animals required, I sta 
ahead this morning with a party of eight, 
consisting with myself) of Mr. and 
- | Mr. Ta Ibot, C Carson, Derosier, Towns, Prone, 
and Jacob ith 
R 
s 
et 
io 
M rn to he party 
with a supply of p pirovisisiis ‘pal fresh ani- 
mals. 
_ Continuing d down the river, which pursued 
westerly course through a nar- 
nd nar- 
em, enjoying the paus 
pidity with which they luxuriated i in ihe tf 
accustomed food. 
was ap to- var a the ss) 
pines, bearing large c sineis were 10 ie in 
dia mete er cedars also abounded, and we 
me 81 feet in circumference, four 
feet fest tie KS toma Thi 
here to ts proper soil and climate. 
We fend it on ‘both ah me the Sierra, but | 
most ierped on the w 
February 26.—We Satu to a 
stream, the aa tains on either 
ting up the river narrowly in precipices, 
be which we had great difficulty to get 
our horses. 
It rained Ropers tie | the afternoon, and 
hei 
we were fo ff the river to the 
above; whence we descended, at night-fall, 
the point of a spur between the river * 
fork of nearly size, coming in fromt 
tight. Here we saw, on the lower hills, the 
tst flowers in bloom, Ms ich occu 
denly, and in consi le quantity ; one of 
em a species of gili 
alt 
w stray banch 
ucceeded in fording 
ni, and t ade ‘aval by which we 
Gelae ts pout or the epposite hill, which, 
