_ Measured 13 double altitudes of polaris, in the north, for lati- 
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as: | _ : 18 
a Santa Fé lady, was sent in the direction ofyTaos, with two Pueblo 
- Indians, to feel the pulse of the Pueblos and the Mexican people, 
sent forward to.reconnoitre the mountain ‘passes. In this company 
“was 
; height indicated by the barometer is 5,896 feet. 
the Raton towering to the ny Pine trees (pinus rigida) here ob-— 
. 
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Passing the rear wagons of the infantry, we found their horses 
, 
nd‘the train followed by wolves. 
the Ist dragoons, was sent ahead the day before 
nd Armijo. Mr. Liffendorfer, a trader, married to 
almost worn out, a 
-Captain Cook, 
yesterday, to so 
and, probably, to buy wheat if any could be purchased, and to dis- 
tribute the proclamations of the colonel commanding. 1 
Yesterday Wm. Bent, and six others, forming a spy-guard, were 
oat 4: £s ir, jr-) who had been in this country some 
months, for the benefit-of his health. 
UG 
,and 7 of alpha aquile, in the east, for local time, and the re- 
latitude is 37° 12) 10", and longitude 64. 56m. 48s." The 
_ August 6.—Colonel Kearny left Colonel Doniphan’s ‘regiment 
and Major Clarke’s artillery at our old camp-ground of-last night, 
— 
done, we ¢ 
17 miles, halted with the infantry and general staff, within.a half- 
tain, a respectable size, and 
he rocks of the mountain were chiefly a light sandstone—in 
like the pass at the summit of the Boston and Al bany railroad, but 
he scenery bolder, and less adorned with vegetation. 
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strata, not far from horizontal; and the. road was covered with 
agments of volcanic racks, of purplish brown color, porous, — 
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