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to take charge of the natural history department. This 
had ihe made extensive geological surveys in California ‘aid Ore- 
h 
a gon while attached to the party of Lieutenant Williamson, topographical 
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“oats in charge of the Pacific railroad surveys in those regions. 
W. Egloffstein, who had been attuched to Frémont’s expedition 
of ies, and had subsequently been employed with the party that ex- 
plored the Pacific railroad route near the 41st parallel, was appointed 
topographer. Messrs. P. H. Taylor and C. K. Booker were the astro- 
nomical and meteorological assistants. A gentleman wry to the 
household of Baron Von Humboldt, Mr. Mollhausen, who had been a 
member of t 
of sete Whipple’s expedition, received from the rea aas of 
i tory. 
‘the Journal of Lieut. Ives is full of interesting descriptions of 
tribes of Indian 
incidents of the trip, accounts of numerous 
ape known prior to his ee as the Moquis, ai &e. 
the sloraion of the cafion. My co befits sai pulled a pair of 
sculls, and with considerable vigor; but as the current has a flow of three 
tiles an hour we could not make rapid progress. We proceeded a 
quarter of a mile, a had just rounded the first bend, when one of the 
Sculls snapped, reduci by half our motive power. There was, fortu- 
Nately, a current of air a Ac Rew in the right direction through the narrow 
gorge, and, with the odd scull and a parse b> apology for a sail was 
whi : istan 
at had been 
versed. The walls were perpendicular, and more he double the 
sate of Br in the Mojave mountains, rising, in many enter sheer 
from the water, for over a thousand feet. a in 
liew of ot aoe tints that had illuminated the sides of the lower 
au im 
Gat ubl mity of the The river was narrow and devious, and 
‘ re isons new combinations of colossal and fantastic forms, 
daly seen in the dizzy heights vitbrm 3 or through the des oe depths 
ds t occurrence, and at every one we were obliged 
bs Tinton "aga haul it over. Eight miles from the mouth of 
the eafion, a loud sullen roaring bet okened that something unusual was 
