a peculiar process, being baked in the ground for about two days. “tet : 
ining the road, (on which, during all the day, were scattered the igrant 
Wagons,) we continued on down the vdlley-of the river, bordered by high — 
and mountainous hilis,on which fires are seen at the summit. soil & 
appears generally good, aithough, with the grasses, many of the plantsare 
dried up, probably on account of the great heat and want of rain. The 
comimon biue flax of cultivation, now almost entirely in seed—only a seate 
ed flower here and there remaining—is the most characteristic plant of _ 
ihe Bear river valley. When we encamped at night on the right b 
the river, it was growing as in a sown field. We had travelled duri 
‘day 22 miles, encamping in latitade {by observation) 42° 36” 56”, 
_ Metric longitude 111° 42' 05". eee as 
: 
how becam 
miles travel {rom our encampment, we 
journey to which we had 
famou: | 
Beer springs. 
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PR avound a cireular bend of river, here at its most north- 
. bt, aud which from a northern, in the course of a few mil ires 
‘ise 
of clear water enters the upper part of the basin from an open valley in the 
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urs and trappers of the country, who, in the midst : 
