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enabled me to shake off the dregs of a fever which seemed 
until then determined to keep me down. 
As may be imagined, so much was said about the surveys, ~ 
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that those who had been on the 32nd parallel almost fancied 2 
they had traversed the 35th also, and those who had devoted — 
their energies to exploring the Colorado Chiquito, felt that 
they knew just as much about the Gila. For my own part I 
can scarcely believe that I have never read the Spanish in- 
scriptions on El Moro, or tried to trade, like Dr. Parry, with 
the Indians of Zui, or that I did not form part of Palmer’s 
little band when they were attacked by the Apaches in 
Sycamore Cafion; that the San Francisco peaks and the lovely 
parks around them have only as yet been seen with the eye «. 
of fancy ; and that James White, the hero of the Great Cafion, 
did not tell his wonderful tale to me. On the way back, 
when Palmer, Colton, and I recrossed the continent by stage 
through Salt Lake City, we worked out together many of the 
little problems in physical geography which I have mentioned 
in this book, and killed the monotony of the dreary hours by 
comparing notes of our different journeys. 
I devote this chapter to a brief notice of some of the most 
interesting features met with by the surveyors on the 35th 
parallel. The region they traversed was far richer in objects of 
interest than that farther south, by which I completed my 
crossing of the continent. My original intention was to have 
taken this more northern route, but a doctor was wanted on the 
32nd parallel, and as a professional photographer arrived from 
the States just in time to accompany the parties on the 35th 
parallel, [ found it advisable to alter my plans, and to become 
doctor and photographer of the southern half of the expedi- 
tion. 
I shall not deseribe the different routes taken by the 
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