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Show 202 CAVI M STRONG' 6 K* OB~~ UTAH J> IGGER. under the ijafMenoe of the northern blast, row upon the beach orossed by the line a few days siice so as to ertend some six ' or seven miles to the south . of i t ; but this morning it had'returned to ' its old boundaries, upon the subsidence of the gale. • . The rock . composing Strong's Knob is, almost Entirely block limestonq, very hard and close- grained; veined with spar, and very brittle. Tufa' occurs hear the base of the hill in large massei, several feet thick, some of which, having famed around large rocks, upcfn which it had deposited itself, had been precipitated with them from tW cliffs above. In other cases, it has'formed around the masses after they had fallen, encasing. them completely, witH ^ - shell, frequently two feet thick,, and had filled up large' 4nterstioes between them. Frequently the rock itself hfcs disappeared,- leaving the tufa behind, somewhat like a hollow mould after the- easting has been removed. At the north- west end of the peninsulars •' an outcrop of compact sandstone and millstone. grit, fifty feet ' ' thick, capped by black fossiliferous limestone, ^ lightly inclined. All attempts at taking angles from the Btation to- day were rendered abortive by the haze which filled the atmosphere and obscured and concealed every distant object. In ' ascending the mountain, quite a large cave Was aCcidently discovered. in the hillside, pGne-- trating ajbout sixty lebt, with a width of twenty- five feet and height of ton. It had been the resort of, deer and antelope.' The rook is black and gray limestone, with'some calcareous conglomerate. . • Wednesday, June 12.- Moved eamp about five ; miles to the southward. The ridge continues parallel jritb the shore, and de-~ • scends by a gentle slope nearly- to the- water. The ri& re is rocky with scarcely any sand^ flat. ' " ' • /. As we were rowing along the shoTQ, we espied ,* n old Indian, with his Squaw and papoose, running down the mountain to hail us. ' We landed, to inquire of him as to the- prospect for w4ter ahead of ust but he could give us no information on thid subject. He was a Utah digger, and proved ^ o> be the same old fellow toho •. had come to us last autumn, in Spring Valley, and who had en- ' gaged to bring in a " give- out*' mule which we hadTIeft behind, for the promised reward of a new blanket. I questioned him about the mule, but he only laughed and would give me no satisfaction. The poor donkey had doubtless furnished his lodge with mefct for the winter. He was an old man,, nearly sixty; quite ' naked, except an old breech- doth and a tattered pair of moccasins. His wife |