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Show 20 THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA. occasional observations with my quadrant and Dol-land's reflecting telescope. * * * * * I plotted my work, found it proved, and made it into three parts : one a map of the waters running east to the Missouri State line; a second, of the mountain region itself; and a third, which appears to be the one you have sent me, of the waters running west. On the map you send, I recognize my names of rivers, of Indian tribes, observations, Mary's or Maria's River, running southwest, ending in a long chain of flat lakes, never before on any map, and the record of the battle between my party and the Indians, when twenty- five were killed. This party clambered over the California range, were lost in it for twenty days, and entered the open locality to the west, not far from Monterey, where they wintered. In the spring they went south from Monterey, and turned the southern point of the California range to enter the Great Western Basin. On all the maps of those days the Great Salt Lake had two great outlets to the Pa-cific Ocean: one of these was the Buenaventura River, which was supposed to head there;* the name * Colonel Bonneville is here probably in error. On Finley's Map of North America ( Philadelphia, 1826), given by Lieutenant Warren in his Memoir, p. 30, and which purports to include all " the recent geographical discoveries" up to the date stated, the Buenaventura is represented not as one of the outlets of Great Salt Lake into the Pacific, but as the outlet of Lake Salado, doubtless Lake Sevier of our present maps. The two rivers which are represented on this map as disemboguing from the Great Salt Lake into the Pacific are the Rio Los Mongos and Rio Timpanogos. The fact of Father Escalante, in 1776, giving the name of Buenaventura to a river, evidently, from the plotting |