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Show 48 Ex. Doc. No. 41. The camp of this date (Septemb er 30) is ncar th r camp of S pt c m b c r 6 ; an d ;r1 y o L s l' r v a t i o 11 • t h i s e \' <: n i n g- Y e r i fi e d , i n a Y c r y sati fact ory man ner, the traY lling rat ' asf'u ned for the chronometer 783. The longitude of camp of Sepkmhcr 7, given by ·hronometcr, i 7h. 07m. 00s.5; that of th i · p resent cnmp, which is one mil • west of it, is 71l . Sm. OOs. IT ·rc, in addit ion to my u ·ual observati on. for tin1c and latitude, J took a set of l un <~ r t1i tanccs, with cast and '" est stars.-(Sce Appent1ix.) Above this camp, th ·re i: on the river a co nsi<l crahle growth of cotton-\>v·ood; among whi ch arc found some•" signs' of beaver. The plains and river bottom were covered with mueh the same g rowth as that heretofore noted; to which mn.y be added an cry tb era, a hands om e 1 i it 1 e g c n t ian -l i 1, c p 1 a Jl t, w i t h d e c p rose- co 1 o r c d flo '" <' r s, ~I!Hl a olanum, a kind of wild potato, with narr0w l eaves, which Dr. T orrey ... ays-~is differen t from any in the United tate .. Octob er 1.-To-day, for the fir ::;t time for six day ~ , I was able fo rise from my b eu without assi t:m ce . The a ir was clastic, and fra grant ·with the p erfumes of the wil<l sage from the adjacent hi 11 · . EYer y t.h in g was, i n truth , co u l e u r d c rose ; for t h c sun beamed out bri ght and rc <l, infusing the . ame tint over the land scape, till ncar meridian. 1 eros ·ed to Tom6, in search of some non-complyin g guides. Wo r ecro ssed at Tome , and measure <l the section of the rLY<'r. A<'cordin g1y, we found the Rio Grande del Norte, many hundred miles fr om its source, 30 ynrus wide. C ___ ~-·-~ fu 7 ----- This scetion is about thr same as at. an li'elippe and Santo Domingo. lf to it we a cl(l the sc ·tion o[ a stream of wate r carried off by two large zequias, carh nine f ·<'l by l wo, we., hall have an csti tnatc of the volumr of water dischargctl by this famous river, for 150 miles, through the most p opul ous <Uld fertile part of its vall ey . Below TanH~, for a few 111ilc , the ntllcy widens, the soil imp roY e s, and t l1 c cult i v a l i on is s u p c rio r to an y o t h c r part , p art i c ularly that of the ranch rias around the pleasant litlle village of B elen. Octobe t' 2.-Tltis morning we passed the pretty church in the vil lage of Sabin al, after which ihe se ttl ements became v ry few an<l far between. vVc en '<tmprd oppo::;ite La. Ll oya, at the be11d of the river Del Norte, where the low sand hill· on ei ther side scelll to unite Cl n(l shut up tltc \ al ley . vV e r ~ c i v c d. a 1.n c sag<' fro 1n the m aj or do m o of t h c n c i g h boring ranchcn a, cantl on1ng u: to we watchful of our animals, that forty of lhe NaYajoes ha.d pas cd the rir r last ni<Thl. The in cursion · of th cs Indians have prevented the se ttlem ent and cult iv ation of this part of the co untry. |