Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . ywere made), it is sometimes difficult to precisely locate hispath between the astronomical stations. Furthermore thesestations cannot always be determined with precision, for thereason that his longitudes, owing to a derangement of thechronometer, are given much too far west. The latitudesseem to be exact, with the exception of the one for CarsonPass where they finally went over. He gives in his Reporttwo sets of figures at this place; the
Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . ywere made), it is sometimes difficult to precisely locate hispath between the astronomical stations. Furthermore thesestations cannot always be determined with precision, for thereason that his longitudes, owing to a derangement of thechronometer, are given much too far west. The latitudesseem to be exact, with the exception of the one for CarsonPass where they finally went over. He gives in his Reporttwo sets of figures at this place; the first for the Long Camp,almost in the pass, exactly right, 38° 41 57, but the secondfor the pass itself, 38° 44, incorrect. This is perhaps aprinters error, yet he states it again in his Memoirs. Itwould be half-way between Carson and Luther Passes, wherethere is no pass, and where he did not go. The correct figureswould be 38° 41 44^ the minutes having been inadvert-ently dropped in the typesetting, and the seconds thenbecoming minutes. After the view from the peak he descended to the campon Walker River in latitude 38° 49 54 (longitude from a. a^ O 2 .S i c eS o O S > tt. I „ S 2 4<J -0cS o The Desert Basin 213 map, 119° 11 3o0 and decided to proceed south up thevalley (Mason Valley) along the other, or east, branch, andfollowing this plan they passed over the next day late,January 2t„ 1844, ^^ another stream and camped twenty-four miles from the last place, in latitude 38° 36 19, on EastWalker River due west of Montello, Nevada, and the lowerend of Walker Lake. This stream, owing to its direction,they thought might be the Buenaventura, but they found itwas merely another part of the one they had left, and theywere disappointed to have the mythical Buenaventura againelude them. Fremont now perceived that since Summer Lake he hadbeen flanking the great range, and that the continued succes-sion of lakes and rivers was the drainage from the easternslope of that
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