. Life, explorations and public services of John Charles Fremont . ut20 feet, and we soon began to hear the rushing ofthe water below the ice surface, over which wetravelled to avoid the snow; a few miles belowwe broke through, where the water was severalfeet deep, and halted to make a fire and dry ourclothes. We continued a few miles further,walking being very laborious without snow-shoes. I was now perfectly satisfied that we hadstruck the stream on which Mr. Sutter lived;and, turning about, made a hard push, andreached the camp at dark. Here we had thepleasure to find all the remaining anim
. Life, explorations and public services of John Charles Fremont . ut20 feet, and we soon began to hear the rushing ofthe water below the ice surface, over which wetravelled to avoid the snow; a few miles belowwe broke through, where the water was severalfeet deep, and halted to make a fire and dry ourclothes. We continued a few miles further,walking being very laborious without snow-shoes. I was now perfectly satisfied that we hadstruck the stream on which Mr. Sutter lived;and, turning about, made a hard push, andreached the camp at dark. Here we had thepleasure to find all the remaining animals, 57 innumber, safely arrived at the grassy hill near thecamp; and here, also, we were agreeably sur-prised with the sight of an abundance of of the horse-guard had gone to a neigh-boring hut for pine nuts, and discovered, unex-pectedly, a large cake of very white, fine-grainedsalt, which the Indians told them they hadbrought from the other side of the mountain;they used it to eat with their pine nuts, andreadily sold it for goods. PUBLIC l\i*W .mi*. SIERRA NEVADA. 157 On the 19th the people were occupied inmaking a road and bringing up the baggage;and, on the afternoon of the next day, February20, 1814, we encamped with the animals and allthe material of the camp, on the summit of thePass in the dividing ridge, 1,000 miles by ourtravelled road from the Dalles of the Colum-bia. The people, who had not yet been to thispoint, climbed the neighboring peak to enjoy alook at the valley. The temperature of boiling water gave forthe elevation of the encampment 9,338 feetabove the sea. This was 2,000 feet higher than the SouthPass in the Rocky Mountains, and several peaksin view rose several thousand feet still , at the extremity of the continent, andnear the coast, the phenomenon was seen of arange of mountains still higher than the greatRocky Mountains themselves. This extraordi-nary fact accounts for the Great Basin, andshows that there must be a system of sm
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