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Show THE GREAT BASIN OF UTAH. 21 of the other I do not recollect. It was from my ex-plorations and those of my party alone that it was ascertained that this lake had no outlet; that the California range basined all the waters of its eastern slope without further outlet; that the Buenaventura and all other California streams drained only the western slope. It was for this reason that Mr. W. Irving named the Salt Lake after me, and he believed I w# as f# airly: ent& itled# to# it. # " Yours, etc., " B. L. E. BONNEVILLE, " Colonel 3d Infantry. 11 LIEUTENANT G. K. WARREN, " Topographical Engineers." It must nevertheless be stated, in justice to Fre-mont, that though Bonneville's map ignores the Bue-naventura River, and all the others which on the old maps had been represented as flowing from the Basin into the Pacific; yet that this fact and that of the existence of the Great Basin, which Fremont has so well brought out in his report, have not been des-canted on at all by Irving; and thus Fremont may very naturally not have been impressed with the dis-coveries which Colonel Bonneville has more recently brought out significantly in his letter to Lieutenant Warren. of his notes, Green River, and which, he supposed flowed west-wardly from the Rocky Mountains into Lake Salado ( Sevier), the limits of which have been left undetermined on Humboldt's map, points, we think, to the origin of the Rio Buenaventura, and its subsequent hypothetical extension from Lake Sevier to the Bay of San Francisco. |