In addition to these, we atcen the circle; and these, with a few lances, 
constituted every thing that had been resctied from the waters. 
_ The day was running rapidly away, and it was necessary to reach Goat 
iiiaha, whither the party had preceded us, before night. In this uncertain 
country, the traveller is so much in the power of chance, that we became 
somewhat uneasy in regard to them. Should any thing: ‘ha ave occurred, in 
the brief, interval of our separation, to prevent our rejoining them, our sit 
ation would be rather adesperateone. We had nota morsel of provisions— 
our arms. and ammunition were gone—and we were entirely atthe mercy 
of any straggling party of savages, and not a little in danger of starvation. 
We therefore setout at once in two parties. Mr. Preuss and myself.on the 
left, ax be. ceron the opposite side of the river. Climbing out of the. 
on urselves in a very broken couatry, where we were not. 
canon,’ 
yet abla’ta eas any locality. In the course of our descent through ~ 
the cafion, the rock, which at the upper end was of the decomposing granite, 
changed | into a varied sandstone formation. The hills and points of the 
were covered with fragments of a ‘yellow. sandstone, of which the. ° 
strata were sometimes displayed in the broken ravines which interrupted 
our course, ind made our r walk extremely. fatiguing. At one point of the 
cafion the red argillaceous sandstone rose in a wall of five hundred feet, 
surmounted by a stratum of white sandstone ; and in an opposite ravine a 
column of red sandstone rose, in form like a steeple, about one hundred and _ 
fifty feethigh. The scenery was extremely ue, ond, petmshstalde. 
ing our forlorn. congsion, we were frequently chlcat a stop admire it. 
Our pr w t very rapid. We had emerged oa ‘the water ater half 
a and, on Sages at the top of the precipice, I found myself with h only. 
ae? 
one moccasin. The he frag gments of rock made walking painful, andI was fre- 
quently abled 2 to stop oe pull out the thorns of the cactus, here the: _ 
vailing: plant, and with which a few minutes’ walk covered the bottom of 
my feet. . oa this ridge the river emerged into a smiling prairie, and, de-— 
scent ank for water, we were. joined ey Benoist.. The rest of. 
| party ; oe afer of sight, having taken a more inland route. - We —— 
the river repeatedly—sometimes able to ford it, and sometimes SW Laas 
over the ridges of two more cafions, and towards evening rea 
hich we here named the Hot Spring gate. On our Pression 
not entered tie hander it our descent. in the 
ing, Mr, Pre euss wasa Bes 
ring gus eo m the rock, a 
pein er, he threw hitisself aoa for raugh 
ca mouthful of water nine boiling hot. He psy " ing: to Be-. 
d himself dow to drink ; er the steam from the water aciuet 
cae, t. . We had nothermometer 
uture, but Teould hold-n my hand i in the water just jong, . 
seconds. There are eight or ten of these springs, dis- 
ms large enoggh to be calledrans. At 
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