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Show PARLEY'S PARK- CAMA6S PRAIRIB. 219 heads in a range of hills three miles to the south- west, whence it issues with a beautifully clear and rapid current, and, crossing the valley, joins the main stream and flows west and north- west into the Weber. Where it issues from the hills, it enters a lovely and fertile circular meadow, about three miles in diameter and skirted with trees. A couple of miles north- east, a trail passes over the hills to the Provaux, a tributary of Lake Utah, six or eight miles distant. Crossing this beautiful little prairie, which is called Parley's Park, and passing around the head of a noble spring on our left, we crossed Bauchmin's Creek, here about twenty feet wide and two deep, with a rapid current and clear, cold water. Following up a dry channel for two miles, we encamped upon a little spring branch with plenty of fine grass. The country is becoming more level and the valley much wider. The ascent for the last two miles is quite gentle, and the land excellent. Wheat could be raised in large quantities on the prairie land which lies on our left, all the way from Bauchmin's Creek. Distance from Salt Lake city, thirty miles, Latitude, 40° 43' 04". 8. Saturdayy August 31.- Starting the train on the road, with direc- • tions to encamp at the ford of the Weber, I made a detour to the right, with a small escort, to examine a prairie called Camass Prairie, through which a level and practicable route was said to exist between the heads of the Weber and the Timpanogas. Following for about five miles a south- easterly course up the valley of Silver Creek, a tributary of the Weber, we left it at a land where it comes from the south- west, and ascended a ridge, or divide, and descending it on the opposite side, through a ravine on its eastern slope, about a mile in length, we came into the wide valley of a small stream flowing into the Timpanogas toward the south- east. Crossing this, we ascended a long slope to the top of a broad level ridge, on the eastern side of which the Timpanogas itself flows southwardly, and finally discharges itself into the Utah Lake. From this point, Timpanogas Peak, in the vicinity of the lake, bears south, 10° west. At the head of a dry ravine putting into the Timpanogas, a meridian observation was taken for the latitude. Duchesne's PasB bears south, 70° east, and the heads of Timpanogas and Weber rivers, north, 70° east. Leaving this summit, we struck north- east about four miles, and descended the bluffs bordering the south- western side of Camass Pr& irie until we reached the plain, which we found to be a most lovely, fertile, level prairie, ten or twelve miles long, and six or |
