Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-08-23


Be obtained by the ensn or trading caravans which No.
hereafter traverse thess elevated and IN rsrv oses 49,
late aud nhosptabIe rcgionsp 1850 1880 ' $50
From Fort Hall the expedition travelled ,,r;..;.
pally along the banks of Lewiss river d;s,ar. -
oiI miles, 70 Z for Neg Perez" a trading esta-
blishment OF the Hudson Bay Co,nnanv arss,sd !.
few hundred yards above the junction ~ ~ Nv.
lahwala with the Columbia river, which thew ,esc,.
ed on October 18th. On the 18th Of October. ,v,e,
deviaung from the course Of the river to a,,;a
defour 70 the north, which il makes at Fort Bsix,
the travellers reached the valley Of the Grand Re
'One Of the few places, says Capt FREMONT, ~
have in journey far where farmer would delight
to establish HIMSELF he live in the sec ao
which imposes Il is about 20 miles in diameter and nav
IN tune form superb county In this neghborhood thc
trees grow TO an immense size the party with nss
apparently 200 feet high, and ret in diameter" opv
whue spruces IL feet in circumference and a The
arches ten eight feet being the average of measured
along the road Their height appeared from 100 ID
iso OF perhaps 200 feet and the trunks Of the aches
sometimes 100 iee without limb but the white spruc4
were generally covered with branches nearly the root An
these trees have their branches, particularly the lower ones
declining" ss
About nine miles above the Nez Perez fort ID The
junction of the two great forks OF the Columbia the
expedition did not 60 up to the Junction oeirg
pressed for time. III 81 #,
sFrom the South Pass 10 this place Is about i 600 miles
and is about the distance from that pass 70 the Mi
souri, river the mouth Of The Kansas may he assua
that 1000 miles the scessary land travel crossing from
the United States 70 the Pacific Ocean on this Line.
! Captain FREMoNr proceeded by the river ii
large canoe, from the Methodist Missionary esssh-
lishment below the falls of the Columbia to fou
| Hancourer which lie reached about 'ihidnght on
the GAh of November. This was the flrthest wcsp
ward pointof the outward bound journey, bslng
| by the route Of the expedition, 2,766 miles from
Kansas, on the western frontier of the State Of
Missouri.
SIN the morning. (says Capt the first object
attention the barque Columbia lying at anchor Ihc
landing She about to start her voyage TO England
and ready for sea- being detained only waitin the
arrival Of the express baeaus which descend the Coufe
and s north fork with the overland mail from Canada and
Hudsons bay, which bad been delayed beyond their usual
lime immediately waited upon Dr. Mclaughlin, the
cave officer Of the Hudson Bay Company in the territory
west of the Rocky Mountains who received with the
tesy and hospitality for which he has been emnenty d
gished and which makes focbe and delightful impression
on traveller from the long wilderness from which had
issued immediately supplied by him with the
ssy stores and provisions ret and support my party
contemplated winter journey to the States and also with
Mackinaw boat and canoes manned with Canadian and o
quos yoyngeurs and Indians for their transportation he
Dales Of the Columbia In addition this efficient kindness
in furnishing with these necessary supplies received from
lima and gratifying sympathy in the suffering which
his great experience led him to anticipate in home
ward journey and letter of recommendation and credit os
officers Of the Hudson Bay Company Pcae
Of the future supplies for my party paid for
bills the Government Of tho United States being readily
taken but every hospable attention extended ms and
accepted invitation to take in the fort and 10
make myself at home ,chiLe staid.
81 found many American emgmnts at the fort othes mad
already crossed the river into their land Of promise Wal
annette valley. Others daily arriving and all of them
had been furnished with shelter could be afforded
the buildings connected with the establishment Necessary
ohing and provisions he latter be afterwards returned
in kind from the produce Of their Iabor were also furnished
grants, whose families otherwise exposed to much sI
feng in the winter rains which had commenced te
same time that they in Of all the
ries Of life Those who had taken water conveyance tho
Nez Perez fort continued to arrive safely, with other acc
dent than has been already mentioned The party which had
passed over the Cascade mountains reported to have o
number Of their animals and those who had driven their
stock down the Columbia had brought them safely in and
found for them ready and very profitable market and
already proposing to return to the States in the spring o
| other supply IN
In the space Of two days preparations had been
lpcted, and ready to set out return. would
have besn very gratifying 10 have gone down TO the Ps
and solely in the interest and the love Of geography to
have the the western well the
sdc Of the continent give satisfactory completeness
to The geographical picture which had been formed in
minds but the rainy had regularly set in end
the air filled with fogs and RAIN which left no beauty
any scenery and obsructed observations The object ny
nsurons had been entirely fulfilled in having connec
Reconnaissance with the surveys Of Captain Wilkes an a.
though would have been agreeable and satisfactory
nate here also ruder astronomical observations wal
for such justified to make delay in waiting g.
| vorabe weather. = seef
Capt F., left Fort Vancouver, on his homeward
Journey, on the 10th of November, and arrived y
the Dalles of the Columbia, distance Of nii.a
miles, on the 18th.
"The camp occupied Continues the narrstS3
I'm making the necessary preparations for hom of
journey, which, though homeward contemplated rleh
and great circuit the south and southeast and the
ration of the Great Basin between the Rocky mountains tf
the Sierra Nerdda Three principal objects were indie
by report or by map being this route the chara
existence of which wished 10 ascertain, and which
cd as landmarks leading points the projected ~ n
return The first Of these points the Klamath lax ~
the table land between the head Of Fall river, which 70
the Columb and the Sacramento which goes the bay Of
San Francisco and from which lake river Of the
makes way westwardy direct 70 the This lake and
river often called Knm, but have chosen to write 10
name according the Indian pronunciation.
tThe position OF this lake. the line Of inland connIuni
cation Oregon and Caoniu It's proximity to thode
marcaicu boundary Of latitude 400 its imputed double char
oflake meadow, according the Of the yea
and the hostile and warke character attributed 10 the Indians
about ia made desirable object to visit and
From this lake intended be about souheas
to reported lake called Msrys dsys journey IN Tho
Great Basin, and thence, still southeast, to the puted
Buenacenfa river, which has had place in many MAPS
and countenanced the belief of the existence great
flowing from the Rocky Mountains 70 the bay Of San Fa
CISCO From the Bucnaventua the next point intended
10 be in that section Of the Rocky Mountains which include
the heads Of Arkansas river and Of the opposite waters o. the
Californian gu and thence down the Arkansas 70 bents fort
and home.
This projected line Of returns great part 81 y
absolutely geographical botanical and geoloe'ca