Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44 . f hunters failed to kill any of them; the leading hunter being throwninto a ravine, which occasioned some delay, and in the mean time theherd clambered up the steep face of the ridge. It is sometimes wonderfulto see these apparently clumsy animals make their way up and down themost rugged and broken precipices. We halted to noon before we hadcleared this passage, at a spot twelve miles distant from Cache camp, wherewe found an abundance of grass. So
Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44 . f hunters failed to kill any of them; the leading hunter being throwninto a ravine, which occasioned some delay, and in the mean time theherd clambered up the steep face of the ridge. It is sometimes wonderfulto see these apparently clumsy animals make their way up and down themost rugged and broken precipices. We halted to noon before we hadcleared this passage, at a spot twelve miles distant from Cache camp, wherewe found an abundance of grass. So far, the account of the Indians wasfound to be false. On the banks were willow and cherry trees. Thecherries were not yet ripe, but thickets were numerous fresh tracksof the grizzly bear, which are very fond of this fruit. The soil here isred, the composition being derived from the red sandstone. About sevenmiles brought us through the ridge, in which the course of the river is northand south. Here the valley opens out broadly, and high walls of the redformation present, themselves among the hills to the east. We crossed. 55 [ 174 ] here a pretty little creek, an affluent of the right bank. It is well timber-ed wiih cottonwood in this vicinity, and the absinthe has lost its shrub-like character, and becomes small trees six and eight feet in height, andsometimes eight inches in diameter. Two or three miles above this creekwe made our encampment, having travelled to-day twenty-five animals fared well here, as there is an abundance of grass. The riverbed is made up of pebbles, and in the bank, at the level of the water, is aconglomerate of coarse pebbles about the size of ostrich eggs, and whichI remarked in the banks of the Laramie fork. It is overlaid by a soil ofmixed clay and sand, six feet thick. By astronomical observations, ourposition is in longitude 106° 54 32, and latitude 42° 38. July 30.—After travelling about twelve miles this morning, we reacheda
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