70 EXPLORATIONS ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN OF UTAH. 



On descending to camp, found Pete bad come in from the guide's party, and he 

 reports all right ahead for 18 miles, to a point where there is grass and water, and 

 where I expect to camp to-morrow. It seems the guide took a pass a little to the 

 north of the one I saw from the high promontory of Cho-kup's Pass yesterday; but 

 Pete, in returning to camp, went through the one I referred to, and found it not only 

 more direct but easier. Our observations plan* this camp (No. 18) in longitude 

 115° 56' 52", latitude 39° 49' 43". 



May 21, Camp No. 18, west shlv »f I'athlmthiuipe I'u/lry. — Elevation above the sea, 

 5,692 feet. Morning bright. Thermometer at 4J o'clock a. m., 32°. Raised camp 

 at 5.25 a. m. Keep up the Pah-hun-nupe Valley, or south, two miles; then turn to 

 the right up toward the pass of west range bounding the valley; two miles more 

 commence ascending pass. Notice a couple of bush-fences or barriers converging to 

 a narrow pass, and a large hole in this last portion. Pete says they are to guide deer 

 near the hole, in which the Indian hides himself, and shoots them as they pass with 

 bow and arrows at night, a hre being used as a lure. Notice a plant of small leaf, and 

 taste of the turnip. In five miles more, by a very gradual ascent, reach second highest 



as follows :, «< Our earth is a star among the stars 



; and should not we, who < 



ire on it, prepare ourselves by it for 1 



the con- 



templatiou of the universe and its Author ?" 













and Humboldt, in his address, discourses as 



follows : 









" The picture tbat I have just attempted of 





I labors sufficiently defines, if I err 



not, the 



part performed in geographical science by that fa 



ithful and gifted scholar, from that achieved by Humboldt. Hi 









them as applied, and in their concn 



3te and 



actual connection in every given country and in the whole glob«\ and con 



siders nature in its totality as an element in 



the development of mankind, from which alone 



al forms and i 



nduences receive their true and final 



sigllifi- 



"At the moment these faithful guides leave u 



s to ourselves, when their 



voice will utter no more words of wisdom it 



may be well for us to ask ourselves how far they 



led us in the high-road of science, and what is the task whicl 



i is stall 



before us. Humboldt, with a surpassing licbnes 



jof knowledge, attempted 



to give us a connected picture of the 





of the physical universe ; but admirable as is tin 



• Cosmos, utter having read its eloquent pages, we pause and i 









9 structure ; we ask for a tie which c 





it with Him, at least that portion of the creation 



in which we dwell : for a 



voice which rises from it as a word < 







>f casting a blame upon 1 



;be great and good philosopher. 1 1 



im fully 



aware that his plan was purposely limited to the 



material world which is 



his theme. I only wish to remark 



that we 



" It is, indeed, a universal law of all that exists, as I have elsewhere said, not to have in itself either the reason or 

 the entire aim of its existence. Every order of facts, like every individual being, forms but a portion of a greater 



organization, the pi m md «', i ol which go n tin , h * 1 r and in which it is destined to play a part. The reason 



of its existence, therefore, la not in itself, but out of it; not below, but above it. The explanation of the beautiful but 

 often mysterious arrangements of the physical globe is to be found not in it, but in the higher moral and intellectual 

 sphere of man, for whom they were made, in order to be there the means of accomplishing a more exalted end 

 than their mere material existence. The ke\ which opens foi ns the mysteries of the evolutions of history, is to be 

 sought in that future perfect economy which is its end, and toward which, under God's guidance, human progress is 

 advancing with a steady step. A science of the globe which excludes the spirit world represented by man, is a beauti- 

 ful body without a soul. Ritter, as I trust I have abundantly shown, put a soul into that body. This will make his 

 memory live forev ubrance of all lovers of true science. 



"Let ns, therefore, continue in the footsteps of these masters in science. Humboldt furnished the means, Ritter 

 marks the goal. Like Humboldt, let us study nature in a ti-ut lovii <j, md devoted spirit, and with combined forces 

 perfect that edifice which he has already reared so high. Like Ritter, let us, with scrupulous care and a pure mind, pur- 

 sue in all parts of oni -earthly .i ;i'm the investigation ol these wondrous harmonies of nature and history of which 



he has traced the great outlines. With the lofty ideal which was before his mind, let us try to realize his conception, 

 which still needs a further growth to unfold all its beauty ; and we shall have a right to look with hope toward a 



i, which wil 

 played in God's plan of the 



mind for knowledge, and which, by its very utterance, shall be, according to Ritter's own words, man's song of praise 

 and of adoration to the 



