10th I felt quite feeble this morning but felt that my fever was broke
we travled up & down some of the steepest hills we have found on the
journey & the longest, we passed through a valley 6 ", miles long grass knee
deep strong mineral springs, any amount of copper, lead, & coal, & lime &
great stone on each side of the valley it is an 18 mile drive without water
that can be drank there are a number of springs in the valley but
they run through mineral beds and are not good to drink, we camped
for the night 1 1/2 miles from bear River. by the best spring of water
we had found on the route & a small stream near by. An Indian
came from Bridgers fort & travled with us & camped with us for the
night, camp fires were discovered about 3 miles from our camp G.A.S
& others went over to them, and found it to be Mr Miles Goodyier
& several others with him some were from Calafornia going ba[c]k
to the States. Mr Goodyier goes by the name of Miles though it is
his Christian name he has setled at the Salt lake has a garding &
vegitation of all kinds he says doing well. He spoke of 3 rods
to the Lake, & talked about the country the Missourian that wa[s]
going to the States came through the 80 miles drive without wate[r]
or grass had to leave 5 of his mules on the road could not get
[page covered] [his] own through, this is on the Calafornia road. The subject a
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