as could draw their|u 
a 
wate 
ais its southeast 
ern Ti 
mountain) on the ri 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
pe Be 
[usde, 
upon some lake or river that supplies fish, 
and pati ‘which they repulse the miserable 
little meat; and thei 
made of its skins. 
only wood, an = ere 
nary size—so mes a foot in diameter, 
m4 six or ake ‘foot high. It serves for 
fuel, for genie cara - shelter to the 
bi d covering for 
~ Togs a: ary weather u 
ts of the — and sod 
reat Bas nd w 
though — must Penang some — 
on, —_ excite our desire to know the 
a 
The whole idea of such a desert, and such 
istence of the Basi ea such things are new and strange, un- 
lished fact in my mind ; its extent and con-| known and unsuspected, and discredited 
tents are yet to tter ascertaine . when rela But I flatter myself that 
cannot a less than four or five hun dre 
miles each way, and must lie aaa in 
the Alta Gale's the demarcation lati- 
tude of 420° probably wibing 3 a segment 
from the north part Ti its in- 
the same remark tnay be m: 
_ ©. The contents of this Bees Basin are yet 
tw be. examined. 
what is red, though not enough to 
— euros, is colbcmt to excite it, and. 
that equent explorations will complete 
at Basin, it will 
re 
be ee belongs to the Alta Cali- 
y | fornia, no applicatio 
n to Oregon, 
and comparative te 
that branch of agricu site ture mi pees im- 
plies the cultivation of grai 
would be inferior to wi Aslantio 
