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Show Fij:{uro 10.-Wrock at Disnstor Fn.lls. DISASTER FALLS-ASHLEY'S OREEK. 27 As Ashley and his party were wrecked here, and as we have )Qst one of our boats at the same place, we adopt the name Disaster Falts for tho scene of so much peril and loss. Though some of his companions were drowned, Ashley and one other survived tho wreck, climbed the ,canon wall, and found their way across tho Wasatch Mountains .to Salt Lake City, living chiefly on berries, as they wandered through an unknown and difficult ·ountry. When they arrived at Salt Lake, they wore almost destitute of clothing, and nearly starved. The Mormon people gave thorn foou and clothing, and employed thorn to work on tho foundation of the Temple, until they had earned sufficient to enable them to leave tho country. Of' their subsequent history, I have no knowledge. It is y.ossiblo they returned to tho scene of the disaster, as a little creek entering the river below is known as Ashley's Creek, and it is reported that he built a cabin and trapped on this river for one or two winters; but this may have boon before the disaster. June 13.-Still rocks, rapids, and portages. We camp to-night at tho foot of the left wall on a little patch of floodplain covered with a dense growth of box-eld01·s, stopping early in order to spread the clothing and rations to dry. Everything is wot and spoiling. June 14.-Howland and I climb the wall, on tho we!;t side of tho canon, to an altitude of 2,000 feet. Standing above, and looking to tho west, we discover a large park, five or six miles wide and twenty or thirty long. The cliff we have climbed forms a wall between the canon and the park, f~r it is 800 feet, down the western side, to the valley. A creek comes winding down, 1,200 feet above the river,·and, entering the intervening wall by a canon, it plunges down, more than a thousand foot, by a broken cascade, into the river below. June 15.-rro-day, while we make another portage, a peak, standing on tho east wall, is climbed by two of the men, and found to bo 2, 700 foot above the river. On the cast side of the canon, a vast amphitheater has been cut, with massive buttresses, and deep, dark alcoves, in which grow beautiful mosses and delicate ferns,· while springs burst out from tho further recesses, and wind, in silvor threads, ·over floors of sand r ck. Hero we have three falls in c1ose succes~:non. At the first, the water is compressed into a very • |