. Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains. . in large boulders on the southernslope, veined with thick seams of white quartz. Limestone wasalso found on the south-west portion of the island, near the base ofthe hill. On the north-east point was an outcrop of quartzose rockplentifully seamed with white and ferruginous quartz. Striatedtalcose slate, very much contorted, occun-ed in the centre of theisland, and, to the west, gray granite, with quartzose island is about eight miles
. Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains. . in large boulders on the southernslope, veined with thick seams of white quartz. Limestone wasalso found on the south-west portion of the island, near the base ofthe hill. On the north-east point was an outcrop of quartzose rockplentifully seamed with white and ferruginous quartz. Striatedtalcose slate, very much contorted, occun-ed in the centre of theisland, and, to the west, gray granite, with quartzose island is about eight miles in circumference, exclusive of theflats, whicji stretch out from it to the southward and westward, andwhich are more extensive than the island itself, being terminatedon the west by the rocky reef passed on Friday night. It abounds in the sego [Calochorius luteus,) which is beginningto seed, and, with its beautiful white, lily-like flowers, whitensand enlivens the gentle slopes of the island. A large number ofother plants was also collected here, among which Cleome lutea, Si-dalcia neo mexicana, Malvastrum, coccineum, Stephanomeria minor,. stansburys island. 209 a new species of Malacothix aud Grayia spinosa, were tlie mostprominent. Thursday^ Jane 20.—Moved camp to the north point of Stans-burys Island, and commenced the survey of it, which occupied usuntil the 26 th. This is the second island in point of size in thelake, being twelve miles long and twenty-seven in Antelope Island, it is a high rocky ridge, rising abruptlyfrom the plane of the lake, and reaches, in its greatest elevation,the height of nearly three thousand feet. It is, at this time, infact, a peninsula, the space between it and the mainland, whichformerly was covered by the water, being now occupied by a broad,level plain of sand, thickly overgrown in places by artemisia. Thescenery, especially on the eastern side, is in many places ^vild,rugged, and grand. Peak towers above peak, and clif
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