36 EXPLOKATIOSTS ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN OF UTAH. 



lived in Utah for the last ten or twelve years, and been frequently employed as inter 

 preter among the Indians, they are an offshoot from flic l. r te Indians, and are the ofl 

 spring of a disaffected portion of this tribe, that left their nation about two feneration 

 ago, under their leader or chief ({o-shi/>, ,-iiid heuee their name (Jo-shin-Vtes sine 

 contracted into Go-shutes. I am disposed, too, to believe that they are thus derive* 

 from the fact that I noticed among them several Hes who, while claiming that the^ 

 belonged to the Utes proper, yet had intermarried with and were living anion"- them 

 These Goshoots are few in number, not more than probably L'iio or oUO ant 

 reside principally in the grassy valleys west of Great Snlt L;iko, along and in tin 

 vicinity of my roads as for as the Un-go-we-ah range. They are of the very lowes 

 type of mankind, and illustrate very forcibly the truth which the great physicist o 

 our country, Prof. Arnold Guyot, of Princeton College, has brought out so si"- 

 nificantly in his admirable work, "Earth and Man," to wit: " That the contour relief 

 and relative position of the crust of the earth is intimatehj connected with th- <h rein nneid of 

 man" These Indians live in a barren and, in winter, on account of its altitude • -oh 

 climate, and the consequence is that they are obliged to live entirely on rabbits rats 

 lizards, snakes, insects, rushes, roots, grass-seeds, &c. They are "more filthy' thai 

 beasts, and live inhabitations which, summer and winter, are nothing more than % 

 lar inclosures about three feet high, made of the artewis'm or sa"-e-bush or branches 01 

 the cedar, thrown around in the circumference of a circle, anil which serve only t< 

 break off the wind. As the thermometer in the winter must at limes be is 1 - 

 zero, and there must fall a good deal of snow, it will readily be nem.'m-d tLtTlu^ 

 must suffer a great deal. Anything like an inclosed lodge 'or wick-e-up of an - soil 

 I did not see among them. Their dress, summer and winter is ;l rabbit skin'ti ' ^ 

 cape, which comes down to just below the knee, ami seldom have' tlievT.-ins 2 

 moccasins.* ■ '"^ 



" Message and Doc., 



Dkar Sir : Permit me to bring to your knowledge as a f-.irt, whieh it is .,' " 



, ... >-"i, that I have? 



to myself. Sureh . 



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Intelligent First Cause and His goodnese i l °**g the Great 



the plans of His mercy/' deserts this small tribute of " e ?*??**?" of 



not more do honor to a great physicist than I honor myself ' ' ng thafc I 



The range of mountains which, on my forthcoming map, I have given the name of Gnyot range is a very console 



nous one, trending north and south, and stretching from the southern shore of G I l 



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