Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . d loftiest peak of the great mountainrange,—since known as Fremonts Peak,—could be seen innumerable lakes andstreams, the spring of the Colorado of theGulf of California, on the one side ; o
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . d loftiest peak of the great mountainrange,—since known as Fremonts Peak,—could be seen innumerable lakes andstreams, the spring of the Colorado of theGulf of California, on the one side ; on theother, was the Wind River valle^, wherewere the heads of the Yellow Stone branchof the Missouri; far to the north could befaintly descried the snowy heads of theTrois Tetons, where were the sources ofthe Missouri and Columbia rivers; and atthe southern extremity of the ridge, thepeaks were plainly visible, among whichwere some of the springs of the Nebraska,or Platte river. The whole scene aroundhad one main striking feature, which wasthat of terrible convulxion. Parallel toits length, the ridge was split into chasmsand fissures ; between which rose the thinlofty walls, terminated with slender mina-rets and columns. GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 405 Fremonts next tour was devoted toOregon and California. On arriving atthe Utah lake, he had completed animmense circuit of twelve degrees diame-. ter north and south, and ten degrees eastand west. They found themselves inMay, 1844, on the same sheet of waterwhich they had left in September, Utah is the southern limb of theGreat Salt Lake ; and thus they had seenthis remarkable sheet of water both at itsnorthern and southern extremity, and wereable to fix its position at these two this eight months circuit, the explorersfound that the mountains on the Pacificslope are higher, more numerous, and moredistinctly defined in their ranges anddirections, than those on the Atlantic side ;and, what is contrary to the
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