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Show EMIGRANTS TO CALIFORNIA. 15 ageurs, who had spent the best part of their lives among the wilds of the Rocky Mountains, and to whom this manner of life had become endeared by old associations. We followed the " emigration road/' ( already broad and well beaten as any turnpike in our country,) over a rolling prairie, fringed on the south with trees. The hills consisted principally of carboniferous limestone, in apparently horizontal strata, which in places formed quite prominent escarpments. Our first day's journey was only of six miles; but we were now fairly embarked, and things gradually assumed the appearance of order and regularity. Although the route taken by the party has been travelled by thousands of people, both before and since we passed over it, I have thought that some brief extracts from the daily journals of the expedition might not be without interest; for, although nothing very new may perhaps be elicited, still it is not improbable that they will convey, to such as peruse them, a more correct idea of what the thousands have had to encounter who have braved this long journey in search either of a new home in Oregon, or of that more alluring object- the glittering treasure of California. Friday, June 1.- Bar. at sunrise, 20.86; Ther. 63°. The road for the first few miles wound along the fence of what appeared to be a large, neglected Indian farm, following for about nine miles the dividing ridge between the waters of the Missouri and those of the Kansas, with deep ravines inclining to the northeast. The ridge terminated in a steep hill, at the bottom of which we found Walnut Creek, running to the south. By an escarpment on the west side, the rock was found to be of the same character as that passed over yesterday. At 3£ o'clock, we descended by a steep and somewhat dangerous road, to the valley of a small and beautiful stream running north, upon the left bank of which we encamped, near the edge of a wood, fringing the stream, in which black- walnut, white- oak, and hickory predominated. A short distance from the camp, to the north, are high limestone bluffs, without trees. In the course of the afternoon we passed the travelling- train of a Mr. Allen, consisting of about twenty- five ox- teams, bound for the land of gold. They had been on the spot several days, detained by sickness. One of the party had died but the day before of cholera, and two more were then down with the same disease. In the morning early, we had met four men from the same camp, returning on foot, with their effects on their backs, |