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“pursue. We struck our tents at 10 0 clock, and crossed the lake in a nearly 
east direction, where it has the least exte ion—the breadth of the arm 
being here only about a mile and a pty "Phere were ponds of ice, with 
but little grass, for the greater part of the way; aod 5 it was difficult to get 
ithe pack animals across, which fell frequently, ‘and could not get up with 
their loads, finwesloteme The. morning was very unpleasant, snow falling at. ° 
intervals in large: flakes, and the sky dark. In about two ho we suc- 
ceeded in getting the animals over; and, after travelling another hour along 
the eastern shore of the lake, we turned up into a cove where there was a 
sheltered Plast among the timber, with good grass, and encamped. The 
Indians, who had accompanied us so far, returned to their village on the 
ean tana shore. _Among the pines.here, I noticed some five or six 
feet in ek 
Dece: 13. —The night has been cold ; the peaks ‘oretin the lake 
gleam out brighily in the morning sun, and. the thermometer is at zero. 
Mat continued up the hollow formed by a_small affluent to thedake, and 
ately entered.an open pine forest on the mountain. The way here 
was sometinits obstructed by fallen trees, and the snow: was four to twelve 
inches deep... The mules at the gun pulled eavity, and walking was a 
little laborious. In the midst of the wood, we heard the sound of galloping 
hotses, and were agreeably surprised by the unexpected arrival of our 
Tlamath chief, with several Indians. He seemed to have found his con- 
duct inhospitable i in letting the strangers depart without a tes sprouts the. 
snow, and had come, with a few others, to pilot us a day or two on the way. 
After travelling in an easterly direction through the, forest ks about four 
bare Ww Teached a considerable stream, with a border of good grass ; and 
ere, by the advice of our guides, we encamped. It is about chintetfetts 
a “and two to it feet deep; the water clear, with some current; an 
according t he information of our Indians; i . the principal affluent to the 
lake, and the yater of = Tlamath riv : 
very. ible e to obtain eas ‘to-night good observatiehe, 
clear 
including an a shy of the first satellite of J upiter, which give for the lon-* 
itude 121° 20’ 42", and for the latitude 42° 51' 26". This emersion coin- 
cides a well with the :result bbilined from an occultation at the 
en of December 7th to Sih, 1843; from which place, the line of our 
thi : | mniles. 
sonia ae 
| fe pine > forests, wh 
g they told me the i 
5 énduee them: to go 
‘the mountain i in an 
