parley's park — CAMASS PRAIRIE. .219 



heads in a range of hills three miles to the south-west, whence it 

 issues with a beautifully clear and rapid current, and, crossing the 

 valley, joins the main stream and flows west and north-west into 

 the Weber. Where it issues from the hills, it enters a lovely and 

 fertile circular meadow, about three miles in diameter and skirted 

 with trees. A couple of miles north-east, a trail passes over the 

 hills to the Provaux, a tributary of Lake Utah, six or eight miles 

 distant. Crossing this beautiful little prairie, which is called 

 Parley's Park, and passing around the head of a noble spring on 

 our left, we crossed Bauchmin's Creek, here about twenty feet 

 wide and two deep, with a rapid current and clear, cold water. 

 Following up a dry channel for two miles, we encamped upon a 

 little spring branch mth plenty of fine grass. 



The country is becoming more level and the valley much wider. 

 The ascent for the last two miles is quite gentle, and the land ex- 

 cellent. Wheat could be raised in large quantities on the prairie 

 land which lies on our left, all the way from Bauchmin's Creek. 

 Distance from Salt Lake city, thirty miles, Latitude, 40° 43' 04'^ 8. 



Saturday, August 31. — Starting the train on the road, with direc- 

 tions to encamp at the ford of the Weber, I made a detour to the 

 right, with a small escort, to examine a prairie called Camass Prai- 

 rie, through which a level and practicable route was said to exist 

 between the heads of the Weber and the Timpanogas. 



Following for about five miles a south-easterly course up the val- 

 ley of Silver Creek, a tributary of the Weber, we left it at a land 

 where it comes from the south-west, and ascended a ridge, or 

 divide, and descending it on the opposite side, through a ravine on 

 its eastern slope, about a mile in length, we came into the wide 

 valley of a small stream flowing into the Timpanogas toward the 

 south-east. Crossing this, we ascended a long slope to the top of a 

 broad level ridge, on the eastern side of which the Timpanogas 

 itself flows southwardly, and finally discharges itself into the Utah 

 Lake. From this point, Timpanogas Peak, in the vicinity of the 

 lake, bears south, 10° west. At the head of a dry ravine putting 

 into the Timpanogas, a meridian observation was taken for the 

 latitude. Duchesne's Pass bears south, 70° east, and the heads of 

 Timpanogas and Weber rivers, north, 70° east. 



Leaving this summit, we struck north-east about four miles, and 

 descended the blufi's bordering the south-western side of Camass 

 Prairie until we reached the plain, which we found to be a most 

 lovely, fertile, level prairie, ten or twelve miles long, and six or 



