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Crossing the next day a slight ridge along the aye we entered a. a 
some mountain valley covered with fine grass, and directed our course to-. : 
wards a high snowy peak, at the foot of which lay the Utah lake. On 
our right was a bed of high mountains, their summits covered with snow,. 
constituting the dividing ridge between the Basin waters and those of the 
Colorado. At noon we fell in with a party of Utah Indians coming out 
of the mountain, and in the afternoon encamped on a tributary to a 
which is separated from the waters of the Sevier by very slight dividing 
grounds. ? % 
Barly the next day we came in sight of the lake; and, as we descended 
to the broad bottoms of the Spanish fork, three horsemen were seen gallop- 
ing towards us, who proved to be’ Utah Indians—scouts from a village, 
which was encamped near the mouth of the river. They were aimed 
with rifles, and their horses were in good condition. We encamped near- 
them, on the Spanish fork, which is one of the principal tributaries to the 
lake. Finding the Indians troublesome, and desirous to remain here a da y> 
‘we obtained some fish—among them a few salmon trout, which were very 
much inferior in size to those along the Californian mountains. The sea- 
son for taking them had not yet arrived; but the Indians were daily ex- 
pecting them to come up out of the lake. £ tls Gh 
We had now accomplished an object we had in view when leaving the 
had reached the Utah lake; 
resort to it for fish. Its greatest breadth is about 15 miles, stretching far 
. 
This is the report, and which I believe to be coments but it is fresh water, 
tains, has obtained for it from the Indians. In the Utah language, og-waA- 
be, the term for river, when coupled with other words in common conver- 
sation, is usually abbreviated to ago ; tim: ignifyi k. Itis pr 
that this river furnished the name witich on the older maps has been gene- 
rally applied to the Great Salt lake; but for this I have preferred a name 
which will be reg; BSG AO IE i ara ctOr tit, restricting to the river the 
script iy impan-ogo, and leaving for the lake into. which it flows 
its scenery, remarkable even in this country of rugged moun= 
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