OUR INDIAN GUIDE.
mountain ridge through which the gorge is cut is composed of bright vermilion rocks; but they are surmounted by broad bands of mottled buff and gray, and these bands come down with a gentle curve to the water's edge on the nearer slope of the mountain.
This is the head of the first of the canyons we are about to explore--an introductory one to a series made by the river through this
FROM GREEN RIVER CITY TO FLAMING GORGE.
range. We name it Flaming Gorge. The cliffs, or walls, we find on measurement to be about 1,200 feet high.
May 27.--To-day it rains, and we employ the time in repairing one of our barometers, which was broken on the way from New York. A new tube has to be put in; that is, a long glass tube has to be filled with mercury, four or five inches at a time, and each installment boiled
OUR GUIDE'S BOY.