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Show • 50 OVERLAND ROUTE 1441~ . circular sweep over very sandy land, to avoid bluffs near river. In ten miles it again comes 10 NEAR TO RIVER, and much of the way here is very sandy. Road now crosses u high tSandy plain, which is very barren for twenty 1niles, to 20 RIVER. JV'o water ·is to be had upon the above road. You no\v travel over a very barren country, which is most of the way covered with a deep, ashy dust, for nineteen miles, in sight of the river, to a 19 FORD. Tho road to the ford runs down between high bluffs. The ford is not a bad one. You can, if you choose, keep down to the sink, on the south side of river. Distance is about the same. We crossed. Road on th6 N. W. side of river is over a desert region, for eight miles, to a 8 WATERING PLACE, and from here, six mi.le11 on, 6 ROAD CROSSES A SLOUGH). 15041 \ 1504i TO CALIFORNIA. 51 at the head of which is a spring of cool and tolerably good \Vater. From here it is four miJ es to the head of a 4 GREAT MEADOW. You will now find good grass for ten n1iles, and must here prepare yourself with hay for the desert. In eixteen miles, you reach 16 HUMBOLDT LAKE. The ~vater, a little distance from the shore, i~ barely drinkable. You had better fill your water vessels at the head of the meadow, where it is much better. Road passes around the Lake, k"eping near it, and the long sloughs beyond it, twenty tnilQs, whore the ~0 ROAD FORI(S. The road lead-ing to the right is the Truckie road, and the other the Carson. We turn to the right and move on to the Dese,rt. The road passes over a rolling and rather rough Qountry for twenty miles, to 20 BOILING SPRINGS. These are 15641 |
