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of dams, from bank to bank, for a distance of three or four 

 miles. 



No. 102. The Wind River MOUNTAINS, and Fremont's Peak, from the 

 summit of the Foot-Ilill Range, north of South Pass, at an ele- 

 vation of 10,000 feet above the sea. Far above in the dis- 

 tance rise the snowcapped ridges of the axis of the range 

 with Fremont's and Snow Peaks in view. Fremont gives the 

 elevation of Snow Peak as 18,570 feet, and it is the highest in 

 this range. A oharacteristicfeatare of these mountains is the 

 dense growth of a species of the nnt pine, which furnishes 

 food for innumerable birds and squirrels, and supplies the 

 Indians with their favorite food. 



Nos. 103-100. The Shoshone Indians, which are described in the 

 catalogue of Indians. 



No. 107. Camps of the 10th and 11th of September, near Church Buttes. 



No. 108. Chusoh Buttes, on the line of the old overland stage-route, 

 about L60 miles east from Salt Lake, and at this point having 

 an elevation of 6,731 feet. This formation is known as the Man- 

 vais Terre, or Pad Lands, and consists of a vast deposit ofsoft 

 sedimentary sandstones and marly clays in perfectly horizon- 

 tal strata, containing within their beds some very remarkable 

 paleontologioal remains. The slow process of weathering has 

 carved the bluff-lines into the most curiousaud fantastic forms, 

 lofty domes and pinnacles and tinted columns, this portion 

 particularly resembling some cathedral of the olden time 

 standing in the midst of desolation. 



Distance lends a most delusive enchantment to the scene, 

 and the imagination can build many castles from out of this 

 mass of most singular formation. A nearer approach dispels 

 some of the illusions, but the mind is no less impressed with 

 the infinite variety of detail and the scattered remains of the 

 extinct life of. some far-distant age. This is also the land of 

 the '•moss-agate." They are found scattered all over the 

 surface of the country. 



Nos. 109, 110. A view FROM the SUMMIT of one of the highest points 

 among the Pad Lands. As far as the eye can reach, upon 

 every side, is a vast extent of most infinite detail. "It looks 

 like some ruined city of the gods, blasted, bare, desolate, but 

 grand beyond a mortal's telling."' 



Kos. 111-114. Detailed views of the same region; and we can see 

 in them the very process by which they have been carved into 

 such curiousaud beautiful forms. 



No. 115. A saw-mill in the Uintah Mountains. The foot hills of the 

 main range are densely clothed with most excellent pines. 

 Judge Carter, of Fort Pridger, has several steam saw-mills 

 located in the thickest groves, and is producing large quan- 

 tities of lumber. 



No. 11G. Camp oe the survey, on the 10th of September, among the 

 pines of the foot hills, in the Pintail Mountains, at an elevation 

 of nearly 10,000 feet above the sea. 



No. 117-1 19. The Pintah Mountains. Views from Photograph Pidge, 

 elevation 10,82!) feet. One of the grandest and most perfect 

 mountain views in the West. The foreground is a picturesque 

 group of the mountain-pines. In the middle distance, glim- 

 mering in the sunlight like a silver thread, is Plack's Fork, 

 meandering through grassy, lawn like parks, the eye follow. 



