. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. crests of the sharp, craggy peaks ofthe Wind River ^Mountains were seen iilitterin- in the. 40 LOOKING I^\CII-^rCWARD. sun; while far to the southward great snow\ rangeslay, like cloud-billows, sleepy and dim upon the beyond the South Pass we encamped at the Pa-cific Springs, where for the first time we looked uponwater flowing Paciticward. The spring nourished abeautiful, meadow-like park spread out in gentleslopes. The situation was impressive. The greatRocky Range lay between us and home; a vast
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. crests of the sharp, craggy peaks ofthe Wind River ^Mountains were seen iilitterin- in the. 40 LOOKING I^\CII-^rCWARD. sun; while far to the southward great snow\ rangeslay, like cloud-billows, sleepy and dim upon the beyond the South Pass we encamped at the Pa-cific Springs, where for the first time we looked uponwater flowing Paciticward. The spring nourished abeautiful, meadow-like park spread out in gentleslopes. The situation was impressive. The greatRocky Range lay between us and home; a vast regionto us a terra incognita, stretched away before us. Ina less prosaic age, we could readil} have peopled thewild, shadowy realm with all sorts of m3thical mon-sters, as was the wont of the old-time Greek whenalone musing beside his sea-shore;— At ev«ntide when the shore is dim, And bubbling wreaths with the billows swim, Thej rise on the wing of the freshened breeze, And flit with the wind oer the rolling seas. The trail at this point diverged, one branch goingby way of Salt Lake, and the other by way of BearRiver. We took the latter branch, which was knownas S
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