OCR Text |
Show HOMEWARD JOURNEY- Continued. so o > • w H H EAT*, Inler- D » y* ToUlAran Fort Total frt> m S* ltlAke CUy. Latftttft Lcnettud*. Oct 22 23 '* 24 25 ** £ 6 Sffcina- Neat the river bank a fine, Urge, eool spring,.*.. CAHF NO. 41- Along the level bottom, good road. Here the plain, three miles wide, could be irrigated. Willow* and small Cottonwood on the islands* CAWF GBODXD- About a mile above the junction or the forks of the Piatt*. Here is plenty of wood and tine grass. The road rises to the table- land at this place, and occasionally descends to the bottom, SpfcFNO CncK- Camp No, 42- Leaving the road track at the foot of the table- loud, pass down toward th* Platte one niile, attd encamp on a small creek*, which rises from springs above, FLOAT CH » E'- Continuing down the Valley of the Platte j islands in the river covered with trees, but wood difficult to obtain. The table is broken, as it approaches the bottom on the south, into bluffs and hills, with occasional cedars- FOURTH CHESIL- Two small streams intermediate. Timber on the south bank. CAMP NO, 48- At die " Two Trees/' two large cotton-wood*, which strve u beacon*, but will probably be felled by travellers. PLUMB CRKE&- The bottom has widened to about fifteen milee, \ a well gra* « d; fuel ean be obtained here, Oaitr NoL 44- A small branch of the river con here be crossed, and fuel brought from the island, Tbe soil is marly saad, with turnc loam, and easily irrigated from the ri** r. EiniiTiair* iuu Pant- Along the fouk; road good 13.40 17.94 11.70 23,58 11.30 5.15 15.94 80.52 3,82 15.41 6X84 05.28 85.28 34.34 109.30 211.00 234.58 246.78 250.93 269.87 800.39 304.21 319. Q2 747.20 765,14 776.84 800.42 811.62 81G. 77 836.71 860.23 870,05 * 8fc4ft It |