1844.] 
the head of hc Arkansas. This course of 
travelli upon us 
the stru 
of the catty. would occupy a cate yerba 
ousand mi fore w 
xe 
n upon it 
along it, all Kd Spanish 
or Indian, inicated th — at it had been 
trod by A n feet. Though aes 
and bt free from avast; this route pre- 
perhaps crossing its rim 
pletely solving e prblem : any river, ex- 
cept the Colorado, from t moun- 
po on rt of our pinned Mente 
seeing the re extremity 
Salt lickes of which the ee 
xamined the year 
Taking leave of Mr. Satter, tsi pert 
several gentlemen, accom 
miles on our way, we travelled about eile 
een miles, and encam the Rio de los 
Cosumnes, a stream rece 
rm part had 
saa to cultivation, and covere 
of oak trees, Fed a the ever- 
a large oak already men- 
can m the summer heat 
of the ia a to ry frosty a a 
bright days conti- 
nued delightful for travellers, ‘et ehlartest 
e to the a whose crops 0: 
at gan ra sa tr a "yellow tinge from 
want of ra 
March 25. —We travelled for 28 miles 
over the same delightful erage as yester- 
day, and halted in a beautiful bottom at the 
ford of the Rio de rie emnes, receiving 
its name from another Indian tribe living on 
river. m are 
uplands are shad 
owy Lupinus, 
growing four to five feet in eit and ¢o- 
vered with spikes in adorned the 
en lls aid Paper ng oh tse at with a 
“On the a grateful Perfume, 
Joaquin—the previous two 
entering the bay between the San Sonia 
a ramento rivers. This place is beau- 
tiful, with open groves of oak, and a 
beneath, with y plants in bloom ; 
varieties of which to ; 
shade of the trees, and grow in close 
_ Near the river, and replaci 
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153. 
mats for — cloths. A vine witha small. 
white » flower (melothria rh called oe la 
= Buen, ‘es which, from its abundance, 
aaa name to an island and Lend in the bay, 
as to-da ayy 
itnes rasihing. oat the Groand-oe. or climbing the 
Pe atsie 
makin i ur. 
the earlier part of the.day, our ride had been 
over a very level P irie, or rather a succes- 
sion of long stretches of prairie, separated by 
lines and groves of oak timber, growing along 
dry gullies, which are | with water in 
seasons of rain; perhaps, by 
melting — Over much of this cote, 
the ; we 
was sparse ; the surface 
ing plainly the action of — which, i . the 
season of z ; the Joaq 
1 Selock st came in|) 
and a 
to love. the | 
oachi stream 
this + beautifal ap oa in thicket: 
being 12 feet in height. 
three or four plants — clustered together, | 
forming a gra about 90 feet in; 
circumference, = 10 rm t high ; hole. 
spikes * flowers, the: 
perfume of which i is aur swee 
x lover of natural —. = imagine with 
leasure we rode among these flower- 
ie “erores, which filled the md with a light 
and delicate fragrance ontinued our 
color, 
bands of of antelope made ir appearance. — 
Our road was now one continued enjoy- 
ment; and it was ‘pleasant, riding among this 
0 de assem 
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