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Show norcnrs MARCH INTO UTK COUNTRY, IST;. I •••• v;: llev. This pine forest extends all the way over to the La IMatea i, a Plata | river. • On the 15th I sent the cavalry ahead with . directions to s.- eiu ,,,.]! in front and go « '! i hito Fort Lewis. Willi the infantry I mar.- ii- ,.,| ihrougb. a beautiful canyon down to the ISii. Flan.-,, and w.- nl :,,,„ ,.;,,;.]• on its bank. In the narrowest pari of the canyon we over-. j,„. ii a . Mexican ox- train; the wagons had slipped, off the grade and w,..- e stuck in tlie mud. We had to unload and carry the wagons .. in „•; :!;.- defile before we'could pass with our train, ( bid. Hatch and v- ai'f overtook us this day and went on to Fort Lewis I Fagosa Serumsj. lie was complimentary in his remarks as to our mar.- h-fA ' yAy0dy A; . d7Zdyd7: ' A *• * '•' ^ y^' A. yy:\^ AA^ AyyyAy-.\. y7'^^^ 7^ y- AZ7': A ~ y • ^ y^.< y± zZ>" m!.-" ~ 7- zAZ^ yz-^^ :^ y.:::.^ y. r- y<.:<- y^ ^- y^. . nTv-^ V-^"' "".-'- « ^. r •-- >' A- T* m<;-:..' m v-~- -.-; ^ yr-^- A--^ yy.-\^ Z3^/- iy,-^.. r- x-:' i • r i i- wvix « .\- TIII": PV. KSI-' NT SITK « < v I- A<' « » SA SIMMXI. S. Tins m m r r r v A n i A v c K ^ r i i TO , u. n K « - UT -; AI: I. AXI> WHJCJI WAS ALsANDOXKlClN 1 ? t* 3. l lY TJIK AK11V, . as glad he was satisfied for I was not entirely myself.- Our . mid this night on the banks of the F h m . o was well sirew-li pine knots ami the men got well dried out at the roaring ' r - s they made. It was a weird scene with the nearly nude men A - iryint! their dothing before the bright fires. ">-" tin the 1 Glli we left the I'dam- o and crossing a sinall divide. *•;-.; into Fort Lewis on the San . J- uan and reported to C- nl. Match. .1 •'• a directed me t,< go into camp near the post. The next day wv 7 :'-:,..! in Vamp and looked about Fort Lewis and l'agosa Springs.. ;. He- springs are truly wonderful. A boiling sulphur spring of ir- " T- :••.: hi" f, !- m some 00 or 70 feet in circumference jis] situated at .; "• apex of a slight elevation from the surrounding plain, and at a 7 *•' rt distance from tlie San . Juan river. The elevated ground is '% •' :! ro.- ky substance, apparently formed by a deposit from the W '*' r'" i- r, ile. ugh 1 am not geologist or mineralogist enough to know. y£ f - A - A - •'*••: i |