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Show 222 WEBBB F0BD- BED PORK. tical trap dikes were observed on the hillsides; and one, in particular, consisted of what resembled a gigantic stone fence, half a mile in length, regularly laid up, the stones composing it being entirely separate from each other, and from six to eight feet cube, the whole presenting the appearance of a fine specimen of Cyclopean masonry. The road pursued by the train crossed Silver Creek, and continued down* the right bank of the Weber for seventeen miles, , where it was forded, and the camp made for the night. Grass and fuel plentiful. The Weber bottom, as far as the mouth of Red Fork, five miles beyond, presents many beautiful little prairies on either side of the stream, fringed with belts of large cotton-woods, affording good locations for many small grain and stock farms. The rock observed from the road was principally a light-gray, fipe- grit sandstone, with a dip of 80° to the north- west and west nortH- west, some pudding- stone, and earthy red sandstone. Day's march, nineteen miles. Lat. 40° 53' 41". 8 Lon. 111° 86' 26". Sunday y September 1.- Engaged in drying up after last night's rain, which had thoroughly soaked a portion of the baggage. In the afternoon the arms were cleaned and inspected, and the men engaged in firing at a mark. Monday, September 2.- Last night was quite cold, and at sunrise the thermometer stood at 33°, with a heavy frost covering the ground. The horses took a stampede during the night, being frightened probably by a bear or a wolf, and this morning were very wild and difficult to catch. The cattle evince an obstinate determination to run back on the road, and require a constant and striok guard to prevent then*. The road continued down the valley of the Weber, now reduced to about a mile in width, being confined on the right by high rounded hills, with gray sandstone cropping out, with a dip of 80° N. N. W. Crossing a small affluent, called Morin's Creek, and a short distance farther on another, for which the mountaineers have no name, it not being deemed worthy of notice by them, as no beaver had ever been found in its waters, at five mfles we crossed Red Fork, at its junction with the Weber, which is here a clear, rapid stream, one hundred and twenty feet wide, and two and a- half deep in the channel. At the junction, meridian observations gave for the latitude 40° 57' 41". Distance from Salt Lake City, fifty- four and a- half miles. At this point the old road turns off to the right in nearly a north- |