. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. - shop and was for the timeindustriously plying his trade. Even this rude make-shift of a habitation had a refreshing effect upon ourspirits, as a reminder of the civilization we had left farbehind. The bluffs, as we first sighted them, treatedus to a magnificent optical illusion — a striking in-stance of the mirage. The Platte seemed to be liftedhiuh from its bed and swollen into a mighty fiood. SCOTTS BI UFFS—(REDRAWN BY ^^C^PERMIS<5ION FROM THF CENTVK\ FOR JULY 1891 ) sweepmg the entn-e val-ley. Out of thi
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. - shop and was for the timeindustriously plying his trade. Even this rude make-shift of a habitation had a refreshing effect upon ourspirits, as a reminder of the civilization we had left farbehind. The bluffs, as we first sighted them, treatedus to a magnificent optical illusion — a striking in-stance of the mirage. The Platte seemed to be liftedhiuh from its bed and swollen into a mighty fiood. SCOTTS BI UFFS—(REDRAWN BY ^^C^PERMIS<5ION FROM THF CENTVK\ FOR JULY 1891 ) sweepmg the entn-e val-ley. Out of this apparent expanse of rushing watersthe rugged form of the bluffs loomed up in blunted, the bleached bones and grinning skull of a human skeleton, which, bj-certainsigns, tjiey recognized for the remains of Scott. This was sixty long milesfrom the place where they had abandoned him; and it appeared that thewretched man had crawled that immense distance before death put an end tohis miseries. The wild and picturesque bluffs in the neighborhood of his lonelygrave have ever since borne his name. NEARIXG THE ROCKllCS. ^I blurred and c.\a<j:i;-cratcd outline, a lia/y, drraniy,tremulous atmosphere the while lending- its wen-d-hkeeffeet to the seene. We now beo-an to eateh an oeeasional glimpse ofthe outer and hio-her peaks of the Roeky Peak was the first of these to greet us. ina few days more we passed Fort Laramie, where weentered the Blaek Hills, so
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