REPORT AM) JOURS 



The sunset from our camp this evening superb, 

 purple and roseate clouds in the west, and the varies 

 parts of the heavens, make up a tine view. 



About dark, Pete came in with a large mail fron 

 our old camp at Good Indian Spring'. It was ph 

 letters and papers for me; but, alas! the black-edged t 

 that, since the Inst mail, the insatiable destroyer had 



August 2, Camp No. &2, Williams's Spring.— Klo 

 Thermometer at 6 a, m., 66°. At half past 2 this i 

 the other portion of our party, joined us. At 5 a. m., 

 party moved forward ; general course eastward! v, are 

 plin Mountains. The rim or dividing line between the 

 Lake Desert is so slight as to be scarcely perceptil 

 our left are abundantly clothed, in the ravines, with 

 be seen in the same localities. Cedars are also abm 

 a creek flowing from the Chain pi in Mountains, upoi 

 is four feet wide and a few inches dee}); bottom, grav< 

 in abundance on side-hills near camp. I call it aiu 

 United States Army. The road to-day, in places, st 

 hilly, on account of ravines. Soil of main valley, 

 mountains, gravelly and stony. The animals have bet 

 to camp, so much have they suffered for the past fev 

 of water and incessant traveling. 



August 3, Camp No. 33, Prince's Creel:. — Elevatioi 

 mometer at 5.30 a. m., 68J°. Start at quarter to ( 

 Floyd, Pete accompanying. Continue up Prince Crc 

 it to left, and pass up a branch canon, filled with ee< 

 mit of pass. These caiions are of good grade. Froi 

 descent, get into a valley, which I call after Maj. Fit; 

 general. This is a fine grass valley, and is well sup 

 lent valley for stock, both summer and winter. Tht 

 the cattle could take shelter during driving storms in 

 thick. I notice that Russell & Co. have a herd oi cai 

 ern portion of Skull Valley, to the north of it. Proc 

 valley, in 2.3 miles cross Porter's Creek; 2.7 miles m< 

 divide between Skull Valley and Porter Valley, and 

 I call after Assistant Surgeon Charles Brewer, United : 

 or to the right, in 2.3 miles you reach, by a pretty 

 Guyot range, by what I call Oak Pass, about 5 mi 

 Pass. This pass leads, across the Guyot range oi m« 

 obstacle to a road in this pass is the oak brush, which 

 away for about half a mile, and the road will have to 

 where it is very narrow, and, in some places, stony 

 through by filling the gully in some places, and enlarj 



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to a spring, which 



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Turning northeast, 





I ascent, 



the summit of the 





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General Johnston's 



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