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represent have already s' 2 
the bay of San Francisco opened far into the 
rocky 
ntains ; and as to the ee aaa the 
mouth of which seen on the 
idea and the “nag A the vepachd es de 
it is, in fact, stream of no 
quence, not nly palave the Sierra Nevada, 
but actuall 
ere is no atm from the 
se cat. short, and not perpendicular 
the coast, but lateral to it, and hav ving 
a 
fornia. They open lines of communication 
north and south, a Roe gt 
thu us this want of — i 
from the San Francisco Bas fi w fu sity ae. 
certained, gives ovekt ational. value to the 
Columbia, which stands 
y or sonia and opens a line of com- 
munication fro 
Mississi 
in‘ cacheliacts rs isap- 
piared, giving pie to an oe ssl 
of neg grass. Passing pes 
re there 
ge He 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
some poin h error | 
had — ipovenl- ol it Pol urees ear Gat 
n from 
nl 
grrr wus esert 
bo! 
rel 
sive tree in the vegetable kingdom. 
ing the foliar; we weary came upon ty cree’ tl 
timbered with large black oe oe yet | 
put forth a leaf. There 
ia 
e continued a short distance do 
creek, hich our guide informed us 
that the water disappea 
whi 
reek, we descended to a kind of p 
among the lower spurs ; the desert being in 
full view on our left, Sopavoutly illimitable, 
A hot m it to-day, through which 
it 
ere agua ; no h ay zacaté—nada: 
or grass ae ; 
very anim 
wae indeed dism 
conceive so great 
tance might “trave 
quin: here, within a few miles? ride, a vast 
ore us, from wh hich the 
running out in an east- 
e ee stretched 
ont 
end (perliaps 
50 miles distant) some eh ah 
which, by the information of ¢ wt 7 guide, snow 
rested all the year. 
Our c 
ergo in this re 
two degrees of the Pac sia 
of the aia of rm 
