ber present. This evening, before sundown, I ; 

 McCarthy, the high peak to the northeast of our < 



surrounding country. The peak is probably aboi 

 some very considerable exertion, which, immediate 

 easy, we'attained the sunnnit. ( hi every hand CO 

 northeast, some 60 miles off, the Bumboldt rang 

 we crossed, on the 19th; to the south, some isolate 

 ranges, the most distant ones covered with snow 

 south. This Kobah Valley is the most extensive « 

 Salt Lake Desert, seems once to have been a lake 



mountains, toward the valleys, but sink in the alluvion at then- base. 1 1) 

 erally grassed, particularly up in the canons or ravines. 



Map 23, Camp No. 19, She-o-wi-te, or Willow Creek— Morning cloudj 



west, and the other west of south. Neither is in the most direct line of 

 our ultimate point, but the latter is much the nearer of the two, and there 

 it, bearing off, however, still more southwardly in order to certainly reach 

 a reasonable distance. (We found, however, the next day that we could 

 a more direct course, (southwest,) as laid down on the map, and have sav 

 miles. Wagons should take this latter course, which they will find practi 

 Eight miles from camp ran a short distance parallel to a small stream, 

 Willows along it. Grass scant and alkaline. About 4 miles farther 

 or creek running southeast, the bed of which is 12 feet wide, and wl 



must void a great deal of water, though at present it only exists in pools. Bum 



rh-grass 



along it, but too alkaline for use. Two miles farther, pass, on our right, abou 



t a mile 



off, a mound, in which are some warm springs, one of them so warm as scarce!; 



y to ad- 



mit the hand. The mound is the product of the springs, and is a calcareo 



us tufa. 



Three and a half miles more brought us to a small spring, which I call after 



Private 



Shelton, of the dragoons, who found it, and who, besides being a soldier in app< 



,|ir:in ' : 



Day's travel, 17.5 miies. Road good. Soil argillaceous and covered with sage and 

 greasewood. 



In cleaning out the spring, where we have encamped, the bones of a human being 

 were found far-gone in decomposition. This is corroborative of the statement of my 

 guide, last fall, that the Indians of this region bury their dead frequently in springs. 

 It may be imagined that those who had drunk of the water did not feel very comb. li- 

 able after the discovery. Fortunately for my mess the cook had used the water from 

 the kegs which had been filled at the last camp. We were thus freed from the con- 

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