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Show 52 FROM GREEN RIVER mits completely covered with snow, and their outlines as distinct as similar eminences would appear in the atmosphere of Louisiana at one- twelfth the distance. At the most re mote part of the range towered up the lofty Fremont's Peak, whose summit reaches an altitude of more than 13,000 feet above that of New Orleans. To the south could be observ ed with equal distinctness the range ofthe Uintah Mountains, likewise white with snow. We are now supposed to have reached the mouth of Bit ter Creek, about which I have said such bitter things in this letter, and in my next we will resume our march from Green River, westward. CHAPTER VIII. FROM GREEN RIVER TO ' FORT BRIDGER. GREEN RIVER is a stream of considerable importance. It rises in the Wind River Mountains, in the western part of Idaho Territory, and flowing south and west through Utah, becomes the Rio Colorado in Arizona, and empties into the Gulf of California. Green River is not navigable, or rather, it has never been navigated, and there is a very great difference of opinion as to whether it can be or not. The Colorado has been navigated, and is still, in the lower part of its course. I understand attempts are to be made next summer to run steamers far up into Green River. Some are of the opinion that this stream can be navigated as high as the mouth of Bitter Creek ; but those who are most familiar with it think it entirely impracticable. I am very well satisfied that it is impracticable after hearing the argu ments, pro and con. During the greater / part of the year there are many places where the water is not over six or eight inches deep, the stream being very wide, and in other |