[Surprise-dev] at Port

[Leppke Y. <ite...@jd...>]

Ndiminished, but evidently increasing size, towards the west and
north-west. Several lateral channels were thrown out from the parent bed
at various distances, some broad and some narrow. A line of ridges, with
one hill much more prominent than any I had seen about this country,
appeared close down upon the shores of the lake; it bore from the hill I
stood upon south 68 degrees west, and was about twenty miles off. A long
broad salt arm, however, ran up at the back of it between it and me, but
just opposite there appeared a narrow place that I thought we might
cross to reach it. The ridge I was on was red granite, but there was
neither creek nor rock-hole about it. We now departed for the high hill
westward, crossing a very boggy salt channel with great difficulty, at
five miles; in five more we came to the arm. It appeared firm, but
unfortunately one of the horses got frightfully bogged, and it was only
by the most frantic exertions that we at length got him out. The bottom
of this dreadful feature, if it has a bottom, seems composed entirely of
hot, blue, briny mud. Our exertions in extricating the horse made us
extremely thirsty; the hill looked more inviting the nearer we got to
it, so, still hoping to reach it, I followed up the arm for about seven
miles in a north west direction. It pro