1844." 
peat amare ener oc ee the traveller in 
co 
oO 
The pi urse and elevation of these ranges | 
give direction to the rivers and character to 
Francisco eels 
the Colum 
h the Dalles o 
lumbia, and runn oe each in a valle 
own, between eri ran, ee e and the Cascade! 
and Sierra Nevada 
rs of this r im 
ue to the Columbia. Its mouth is the only 
inlet and outlet to and fro th sea; its 
es in the moun- 
8; erefore the only line of com- 
siunication beclaahs the Pacific a the i in- 
° ons 
A pera 
war mmerce, of national or so 
intercourse, must onducted upon it 
This gives it a value beyond estimation, and 
would involve irreparable inju lost. In 
this unity and concentration of its waters, 
the Paci of our continent differs en- 
waters of the Alleghany mountains are di 
into many rivers, having their differ- 
ent entrances in a, and opening 
i lines of communication the in- 
a coast is gene 
tlantic 
ds, and river estuaries, 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
The roe of | this 
the ‘Atlantic is low and open, : indented with | ing map 
mountains, with its concentration and 
babl 
impregnable country in 
Differin ng so much - om the Atlantic side | 
our co wig in 
“< 
oS 
so anxious 
$ existence is vouched for by 
such of the American traders and hunters 
some knowledge 
os 
chyeon agere requires it 
wn Spaacretiee soos 
te sce Walker, who is s 
| in ne: parts, ‘informed ae 5 that trots the 
alt lake west, there su 
a 
FEE 
Ghsiindlnt indo ts tones of aac untry. The 
Pacific coast, on the contrary, is high and 
cate oe with few bays, and so one that 
art of bee cou 
, and that nar- 
row and easily This structure 
_af the coast, b two g 
€. 
| Wah-satch and 
yself; and also saw the 
enclose the waters of the lake on the east, 
and constitute, in that quatter, the rim of 
the Great A along the 
eastern base of the Sierra Nevada, where 
