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Show 94 NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. the fourth of July, and celebrated the day here. It is over 600 !ards long, fron1 100 to 150 yards wide, and 128 feet h1gh. The top can be easily reached from the east e. n.d or north side. On the top is a natural ba s1· n containing a large quantity of water, till quite late in the season. On the sides of this rock thousands of travelers have left their names; and yet the rock itself is rema~kable for little else than its name. It is simply a great Isolated rock of grey granite, full of cracks and fissures. TO UPPER FORD . ' . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . • . • . . . . . . ' ..... . 1 You now cross the Sweet Water, a clear, cold, beauti-ful stream, and your route will now for nearly one hundred mile~ lie for the greater part of the way along its banks, wh1ch are bordered in very many places with narrow alluvials of excellent grass. DEVIL'S GATE . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 5171/ DEVIL'S G.A.TE. .As you approach this remarkable natural formation, you NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. 95 will see the river to the right, apparently terminating against tke base of the rocks; but as you proceed a gap or opening appears in the mountain from top to bottom, and through " rhich the river runs. The width of the clfasm is about seventy-five or one hundred feet, the walls nearly perpendicular, and over four hundred feet high. SMALL CREEK ....... .- ............................. ~ Good water, excellent grass, no wood. ANOTHER CREEK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ~ Grass and sage plentiful. DEEP RA VINJ1~ CREEK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Good grass; heavy sandy roads. There are several routes along this part of the way, depending on the hight \ of the water; it is best to follow the river when it can be done, as the roads back from it are heavy sand. • SAGE CREEK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sometimes nearly dry; but you are near the Sweet Water, which you course along, passing a singular bluff on your left, and on to THREE FEET CREEK ............... :. . . . . . . . . . . . 43{ Perhaps dry; but you tare near the river. BITTER COTTON WOOD ...............•.••...... 3Ya ;But little grass here. SECOND FORD ................... ................. 6~ If the river is low, cross here, as you will save about three miles, and avoid a heavy sandy road of nine miles, without grass or water. TIDRD AND FOURTH FORDS .................... 2 These fords are near together ; in fact for several rods you pass along the very bed of the river, between high rocky bluffs, where there are no banks to the stream, the bottom a little rough, but not impassable. You now pass over a plain back from the river, and on to the FIF1'H FORD . . . . . . . . • • . • . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 I |