a 
7 
1844.] 
ae several kinds of and a variety of 
elling among the old 
Here we selected a 
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the trees, was 
and Pes vines. "Ta the 
urs, a and..aicembe 
parition, and a strange and beeen sight In 
7 desolate n In 
, Spanish, costume, jin ling. & spurs sat 
a equipped after the Spanis 
He informed me tet he belonged # one ef 
the Spanish missions to uth, 
two or three days’ ride, at he had 
obtained from the priests leave to spend 
few days with his relations in the Sierra. 
Having seen us enter gh pass, he had come 
dc 
appeared familiarly 
dg i: | direc 
vice, after crossi 
our intended seo along its eastern base to 
t 
come from a eat 
Tiver in the eastern part of the desert to 
trade os Sips par. had just started on 
their ret; He would himself return th 
nd as o 
n the valley, had entirely passe 
Tan a clear sky. That which had enveloped 
the nei 
evi ot 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
ee pear- hig 
tg vies our- | In i 
n| tufts, and the feathery 
h trail. By this route, a party of | or 
ist 
satjonneod, sad. nillew, | 
sauder ies 
sycamore, oaks, . 
wai a 
differs qs that that of th ae en Hee ae 
platanus is er—a new 
species, recently described amon, 
collected in the voyage of the S 
cottonwood varied its foli 
plentifully through the air. 
day | 
right ; but w sO 
pleasant eicaaien, as we rode along ‘between 
g s, and on flowers, with hum 
birds and other feathered friends of rig a 
die enlivening ste serene spring ai 
we re mit of this becatiful 
pass, and obtained ee view into the eastern 
country, we saw at once that here was the © 
place to take leave of all such pleasant 
scenes as e The distant 
mountains were now rocks again; and 
low, the land had any color but green. 
Taking into consideration the sig of the 
Ta e found this an excel- 
lent one for horses ; ee with a little labor, 
pe with a more perfect examination 
of the localities, it might be made sufficient- 
Its latitude and 
(the 
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