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at that point, and have travelled in it ever since, having its southeastern 
tim (the Wah-satch mountain) on the right, and crossing the streams which 
“flow down into it. The existence of the Basin is therefore. an established 
fact in my mind; its extent and contents are yet to be better ascertained. 
At cannot be less than four or five hundred miles each way, and must lie 
wey in the Alta California; the demarcation latitude of 42° proba- 
Trout river, and some other streams, the same remark may be made. 
: be examined. That it is 
but miserably and sparsely. From all that I 
manity here ap 
tsed in 
