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Show 42 OVERLLND ROUTE 1111 from Fort IIall intersects. In five miles yon roach 5 SECOND Ft>RD OF ABOVE, and after leaving this ton miles, you come to a 10 SPRING CREEl{, 'vhich crosses the road. II oro is good grass. In three and a half miles Jnore is a 3~ SECtJND SPRING ·cREEK.Good grass. 'J he roacl for tho last twelve miles has passed over interval land, lying bet \Vcon the ridges of the Great Ha:5in. Jn one and a half miles you come to a 1 i RAPID CltE8K. Ilere is an a· bundance of grass and sage. In four miles you como to 4 CROSSING 01·, MUDDY CREEK, and three and a half trtilos further you como to 3~ STEEPLE ROCKS. There is hardly room to alhnv the passage of a wagon between these rocks, which aro upon the sumrnit or a mountain. lle • fore arriving at this summit, you \Vill 11381 TO CALIFORNIA. 43 1138~ pass many larg<', disconnected, and cu-rious shaped rocks. From summit it is one mile to 'Nhel e l TIIE Nf)RTfiF:RN SAL.T LAI{R ROAD intersects, and from here you wi1l find, in five rnilos, a 5 ROCK SPRING AND CR~~EK. Spring on right of roatl, near to summit of high hills. The road from hero is very mount n inous, bad, and sideling in places. Some of the mountains between the above and Goose Creek, aro higher than the SoYth Pass at tho summit. 7~ BRANCif OF GOOSE CltEEK. Immediately before descending to the branch, you 'Nill bo obliged to hold up your wagon~ by mtA.nunl force, to prevent thern from capsizing. There is little feed nBar the branch, until it passes bet\vcen the Bluffs two miles further. 2 ROAD RISES STREP BLUFF, and one mile and a half more is 1154 |