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Show THE GREAT BASIN OF UTAH. 55 did. So it would appear that civilized nations are not the only people who go to war about their domain." The writer closes this account of the Great Basin of Utah, with the following correspondence on some of the subjects to which it relates : " WASHINGTON, June 14, 1860. '' PROFESSOR ARNOLD GUYOT, LL. D., " Princeton, New Jersey. " DEAR SIR, Permit me to bring to your knowl-edge that I have, in my explorations across the con-tinent, given to a very conspicuous range of moun-tains over which I passed, the name of your worthy self, by which I feel that I honor less a distinguished votary of physical science than I do honor to myself. Surely one who has spoken so modestly, so adoringly, so well of Nature as the handiwork of the great / Am, and has shown that she and history are but the counterparts of each other, both illustrating and de-veloping the Great Intelligent First Cause, and His goodness in thus ' arranging all things for the educa-tion of man and the realization of the plans of His mercy/ deserves this small tribute of respect and praise; and I bestow it, as I have said, feeling that I do not more honor a great physicist than I honor myself. " The range of mountains, to which on my forth-coming map I have given the name of Guyot Range* * Captain Simpson has in every instance preserved the Indian names of the ranges of mountains, where he could learn them. |