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Show Ex. Doc. No. 41. mountccl to thr table Janel, and at ]2~ o'clock stopped to graze our horses at a little> paleh of dried . p ar grass. Leaving this, the ground, ns far as the Y(' could reach, was st rewed with the black, ::; h i n i n g , w d l r o u n de d p e b b lc s . T h · I a r r c a e v c n w a s s <: a r c c· l y s ' <' n , and d rca ri rH·ss seemed to man t h• lhe earth. Tlt c arroyo by which we descended to tlH' river was rut f'rom a bed of rtddish JH•hhl!'s 20 or :30 fed de<·p, and as we neared the rivcr they wer' solder •d togdhn in a conglolllerale of whidt lime was th<' rem •nt. Wc saw to-day on the roC'ks, other rude carvings of the Indians, but tlt<'ir mod em dat was ~q>parcnl. To day th ere was a dead calm, about meridian intensely !tot, and th<' dust rose in Yolumes as our party adv;mc:t•<l. W' fouucl the riv-er spn•ad ov r a g n·atN surfa<"r, about JOO Jards wid , and flowing ~rnlly along OYl'r a sandy boLlom, the b a n k s f r i n g-<' d w i t h ran c, w i II o \\ , a 11 d my r t 1 <' • Last ni ght 1 took an involuntary plunge into it, for my mul ' sunk in a qui('k ~and, whil · r was s ·arrhiug for a plaC'C' to rro. s my p~rty. To-n:ght I took a swim, but foun<l the watrrs di ~ agrcc:1bly ·old. T h c c· h a in of b r o k n h i l I s s t i 11 co n t in u c c l o n t h c n o rt h s i d r , :m cl when nrar t>ur camp of thi. date, eirrl •d in an amphithcatrr, with its arc:h to th north. The basaltie columns, ri~ing iuto the f.,hape of ·pirt>s, dorocs, and towrr:;;, p:aYc it the app ·rancr, as we appro a<' It c d, of a v a t city on tIt e hi II s. T h c dis tan<: of the r row n of this amphithcatr<', determined by anguh~tion, is-- 1uilcs, and Franci co informs ml', that against its north b:1se the Colorado strikes. So at this point, whi<'h is about six mil •s bt•low our camp of this date, the Gila nnd olorado musL be ncar togcthrr. The h i 11 s a n d m o u n ta i n s a p p · <H c d · n t i r e 1 y d c s t i t n t c o f v P g d ,, t i o n , a u <l on the plains could h ·seen, only at long intervals, a few stunted tufts of Iarrea Mt•xirann, and wild wormwood, art(•misia cana. Nove?nbcr l 9.-The table lands wcr the sam as thos · des-crib •d yesterday, but the valley wi1lcns gradually, and for most of the way is six or eight mil es wid·, and th e soil excellent. Home remain. of form r settlements in broken pottery, corn grinders, &c.; but 11Htc 1 ~ f wcr in number than above. .Nine miles from <'amp a spur of moun lain · of an a 1 t ('red s i l i <..: i o us sand-stone · ;un c in from the sou~hcast, harp a the <•dg<' of a case knife, and sl10oting into pinnacles. At th ir base W<' passe1l for half a mil • over th' . barp cdg sofa red altered san·d tonr, dipping southwest about 80° , inde d n ·arly vertical. On this spur was killc(l a mountain sl1 •ep, one of a large flo ·k, from which we named it Goal'~ spur. We encamped on an i~lan<l where th(• valley is contracted by san<l b~ttl<' .' in what bad h en v ry recently the bed of lh ' riYcr. 1 twas overgrown with willow, can~, Gila gra ·, ilag grass, &c. The pool in the old bed of the rin:r w rc full of ducks, ancl all night the swan, brant, and g esc, were pa ing, bul thry were a. shy ns if they hacl rceeiv('(l their tuition on lht' Chesapeake bay, where th ·y arc ·ontinually ·ha cd by sport~rncn. The whole islanJ was tremulous Ill< A I) 0 1-' T II I< M (} l ' N T A I (; () i\ 'I' I U (•tllllo" ' , '·'"' ' |