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Show [ 243 J 72 sured myself. A few ~trokcs lnouoltt me tulo an eddy, nud I landed on u pile of rocks on the lrft ·idr. _Lookitw around, I. aw tlwt Mr. Preuss ~w.u craincd t!Jc :Shore Oil the ~i.ll11C SJdc, about twe11 ty yards below; and a ltttl<' ~limbi 11n· and switumincr ::;oon hrou ht him to tny side. On the opposite ~ide, again t the wnll, lay the boat l>ottolll up; and l.t~mbert was in the i.\Cl of savirw Descoteau - whom he had gra~petl by the hntr, nud who coul(l not swill l: "o Lache pas"' titlid he, as r llfiC, r\Vtud le;_trncd," Iache pns, cI lere fre, re.' "Grains pas," was t'h e reply, " J e 111 ' en \'ill.S _mo_un.r ;_~vant Cllte l I e t,e In". c Il Cr. " Such was the reply of cournge and geucros1t~ 111 till~ dang<' r. I• or a hundted yards be\ow, the CUITellt \Vi\. CO \'l~ ~ed \\'llh floattllg uooks and boxr~, batet: of blalll·et ,, and :::catt cn'd atticlcs of clotlling; and ~o ~tro n (r and boilinn · wns the st ream thnt c\·cn our ht'a\'V in trum nt s, which w re all in cn~e., 0 ' .• kept on the surface, and the se.·t:.mt, circle, and the long black box _of the teles-cope, were in ,·iew at one . For a 1 ~10m~nl, 1 felt. sotn_ewhat dt sb carl~ nrd. All our books; almost every rc.:con1 of the JOurney-our ,IOttrnals and r ''TJ~tcr~ of astronmnical and bnrom ctri cnl ob..: 1 \'llt.ion~-hitd b 'en lost in a mon1cnt. But it wns no tillle to indulge in regrets; and l immediately set nl>out endeavoring tn snx c sonwthirw fro1n tlte wreck. Making our::;elves und r ·1oo1l as well n · l)ossible by ~;io·11 S, for nothin1r could be h aHl in t.h roar of water .. , • 0 0 we ·omrnenced our operations. Of e\·cry thing on board, the only article that had been saved wa 111y douhl e- barrel! cd gun, which Descoteaux had caucrht, and cluncr to \\·ith tlrow11ing tenaci ty. 'rhc m 11 continued down the river on the left bank. 1\lr. Prcu ~s and myself tle ·cctH.lcd on the side we were oH; and I .njcune sc, with a padule in his hancl, j111nped on the boat. alone, and continued do\\'n the caflon. he wn now light, and cleared C\'cry lnHI place \\'ith lllu ch lcs~ diflicully. In a short tinte, he was joined by Lantbcrt; and tbe search wa ·continued for about a mile and a. hal f, which was as far us the l>ont cotdd proceed in the pn s. Here the walls wore about ftvc hundred feet high , and the frngmcnts of rocks from above had choked the river into a hollow pass, but one or two feet above the surface. Through this and the iutersticcs of the rock, the water found it· way. F,avored beyond onr expectation~, all of our regislcrs had been recovered: with the exception of one of my journals, which contained the notes and incident of travel, and topographical description~ , a uumber of scattered a tronomicnl observations, principally meridian altitudes of tho sun, and our barometrical regi ter west of Laramie. Fortunately, our other journals contained duplicates of the most important barometical observations which had been taken in the monntains. These, with a fe\y scattered notes, were all that had been prc:ScrvcJ of our meteorological observations. It: addition to these we saved the circ le anti these, with a few blankets, constituteu every thing that hnd bee.n 1·es~ucu from the waters. . Theda~ was running rapidly away, and it was neces ury to reach Goat Island, whither the party had preceded us before night. ln this uncertain country, the traveller i:; so n,uch in the power of chance that we became some\~hn~ uneasy in regard to them. honld anything !;ave occurred, 1n t!1e bnef mterval of our separation, to prevent our rejoining them, our si tuation would he ruther~ ~espernte one. 'Ve had not a nHHsel of provisions, our arms and ummumtton were gone; ami we were entirely at the mercy of any straggling party of savages, and not a little in dan<Ter of starvation. 'Ve therefore set ont at once in two parties. Mr. Ptcn~s ,~Hl myself on the left, anu the men on the opposite side of the nver. Clirnbin,;. out of the 0 73 <·ailOn, we found ourselvt'S itl n very broken count ry, wl1cre ' ·e were not yet able to ref'ognize any loca\ily. lu till~ conr,e or our desc~llt tiJrou_gh the caf10n, the rock, whid1 at the upper cud was of the decomposlllg' crrat1Ite, chruwcd into a varied , audstone lon11ation. The hills and. poi11ts of the ridcre~ Were COVered with {'rn(r nJel ltS Of a yellow SilllUStOil ', Of which the ~ ' strata were son1ctimc.' displayed in the broken ravines which interrupted onr course, and mr.H1e our walk ex lrenwly futigni11g. At one point of the caf1011 , lllC red nprjJinceous attdstolle rose Ill a wall of five hnndrc<.J. feet, ~urmo unte<.l by t~ slratum ol white SiUHlstolH', and in an opposi te ravine a column of red sancbtonc ro ·c in form like a steeple about one hundred anti fifty feet lti trh. 'l1he scenery was {~xtrctuely picturcsqu , and notwith tanding onr forlorn condition, we were freqllcntly obli•red to . top atHl ad!Jlire it. 011r progrrss wn not v<~ry rapid. \Vc hncl emergeJ from the water half tntkc<.l, a11d on a.rrivin1r at tltc top of the precipice, l found myself wit! only one rnoc.casi n. The fragmeuts of roc! made walk111g painf'ul, and [ \.Vas frcqllcntly obliged to stop ancl pnll out the thorns of the cacl7.t~, here the prevailing plant, ancl with which a few minnt<:s walk covered the bottom o[ my feet. From tlt is ridg-e the river emerged into a titnilin rprairic, and de. cendiug to the bank for water, we were joined by llenoisc. 'ellC rest of the pnr1y were out of, i(rl 1t, having taken a more inland route. \Yc cro. eel the river repeated ly, soJuctimes nb.lc to ford it~ and somctim 'S swimminrr; climbed over the ridges of two more cni10n~, and toward cv niug reached tltc cnt, which we here named the llot 'pring Gate. On onr previous vi:it in .July we hacl not entered thi pa ·,reserving it for our descent in the boat; and when we enter tl it this even in ~, Mr. PrelL was a few }Hwdred {eel in advauc . Jlcatt;d with the lono· marcl1, he came sudden ly ttpon a fine hold , pring, gushing from the rock, about ten feet above the river. Eager to c11joy the crystal water, he threw l1 inlsclf down for a hasty draught, and took a mouthful of water almost boiling hot. He said nothing to Benoist, who \aiel himself Llown to Jrink, but the !:>team from the ·water arrested his cao·crncs,, and he e capcd the !tot u mught. \Y c had no thermometer to ascertain the tcmpcratu re, but I could hold my hand in the water just long enough to connt. two second . There arc ctght or ten of these springs, di charcring them lves by tr arns lnr(Te enou <Th to be called run . A loud hollow noise was heard. from the rock, which I supposed to be produced by the fall of the water. The strata immediately where they issue is a fine white and cn.lcnreons sand:tone, covered with au incrustation ·of comrnon alt. Leaving this Thcrmopyl a1 of the We't, in a short walk, '\Ve rcacltr.d th red ridge which has been described as lyin cr just above Goat island. Ascenuing this we found some fresh tracks and a button, which showell that the other men had already arri\·cd. A shout from the mnn who fir ~ t reached the top of the ndge, responded to from below, informed ns that on r friend were all on the island, and we were soon a mono· them. vVe found some pice s of bufralo tanding around the fi rc for us, and mnnagcd to get some dry clothes among the people. A uddcn storn1 of rain drove us into the best shelter we could find, where we slept soundly, after one of the most fatiguincr days l have ever experienced. Au[rust 25.- garly this morning Lajeunesse was sent to the wreck for the articles which had been savcu,'"and about noon we 1 'ft the island. The tnare which we had left here iu Jnly had much improved in condition, and she serveu us well ~guin for some time, but was finally n.handoucd at a subseqeut part of the JOurney. At 10 in the morning of tht: 26th we reached |