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Show 206 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. ver River abounds in wild ducks, snipe, and other water-fowl. 17th.-This morning, at daylight, there was a severe frost-water froze in camp half an inch thick. We left camp at half past seven, and after a drive of six hours, the caravan camped on Little Creek canon-the pass through which Lieut. Beale entered Little Salt Lake Valley, a few months previously. We harnessed up again, and in an hour crossed the trail which Col. Fremont and our party made on entering this valley from the Warsatch mountains, on the 6th of February preceding. Under what different circumstances I travelled the same road at that time! When I turned to survey the snowy mountains among which we had suffered so much, and from the dangers of which we had been so miraculously preserved, tears involuntarily flowed from my eyes-I was completely overcome. I made a drawing of this pass, and also of Lieut. Beale's. On Red Creek canon, six miles north of Parowan, there are very massive, abrupt granite rocks, which rise perpendicularly out of the valley to the height of many hundred feet. On the surface of many of them, apparently engraved with some steel instrument, to the depth of an inch, are numerous hieroglyphics, representing the' human hand and foot, horses, dogs, rabbits, birds, and also a sort of zodiac. These engravings present the same time-worn appearance as the rest of the rocks; the most elaborately engraved figures were thirty feet from the ground. I had to clamber up the rocks to make a drawing of them. These engravings evidently display prolonged and continued labor, ami I |