5th
we have freequent slight showers yesterday & today while among the
hills I was sum better today we had quite a rough road today
we travled up & down the hills untill we arived at what is
called the warm spring which is at the fork of the two
roads that comes from we here nooned & visited the
head of the spring which was quite warm for drinking water
It boiled out of the bluff & made a little rivulet about 4 feet
wide & 3 inches deep it was clear soft water but no warmer
than I have freequently found water in rivulets exposed to the
sun the bluffs, peaks, & hills begin to be more lofty as we got
into the hills we are begining to come to an elk, bear & mountain
sheep country, we saw their signs to day we came in the foornoon
6 1/2 miles making 15 miles from Laramie to the springs soon
after we arived the first company of came
up 12 waggons of them. Professor took an observation
for the Lattitude at the head of the warm spring & found it to be
42º 15' 6" we travled in the afternoon 10 1/2 miles & camped
on the west side of a small pure stream of water in good feed
the Missouri company camped 1/4 of a mile below us on the same
stream, they started this morning from the & took the
South road which is 5 miles nearer than the North road which we
took & a much better road. distance of the day 17 miles
