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and south side, sheer perpendicularly many hundred feet. The 

 mountains, in every direction • are 



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grass appareatly wanting, 

 goose, the deer, the rabbit, show 



►f low bushes 

 The badger, the 



shapeless ravines of igneous 



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raven 



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the duck, the 



signs. We met a terrapin 

 to-day, which is- probably the terrapin gopher, of the south of the 

 United States. In our camp is the remains of some habitation, pot- 

 tery, &c, and the ruins of an eliptical wall, 72 by 48 feet, nothing 

 remaining but the' round boulders, one and two feet in diameter, 

 which formed the base, probably, of the wall. Distance, 14 miles. 



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Marched ab 



out 8, and passed th6 end of the canon 

 ocky hills truly grand- On the right 



through an opening in the rocky 



and left, the clifTs overhung us hundreds of feet, composed of basalt 

 on one side, and amygdaloid; apparently, the diluvion affected by 

 combining with some other substance, and appeared to be an angle 

 of 45° dipping east; the mountain on the left bank was composed 

 of thTs, and the seams in it showed the exertion of a remarkable 

 force. In one place, a crack ia the mountain had formed a wedge- 

 shaped mass, which had slipped* down in^the opening crevice, and 

 was Derhans 50 feet below its proper position. West of it was a 



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peak of basalt, and on the right bank of the river granite made its 

 ftppearanqe', but in low hills. After coming out of the eanon, the 

 •igns of former occupation increased; an extensive plain country 

 opened upon us, which extends, probably, to Salt river, which is 

 about 15 miles north of here. About 12 miles from camp, we came 

 «pon a fine spot of grass, one mile from the river, where we noonedj 

 all the rest of the plain was naked, except the mesquite, creosotej 

 and other bushes, which covered perhaps one-third of the land. 

 ^ About our nooning place, the vast remains of a settlement com- 

 menced, which reached to our camp, three miles; the ground was 



