Show 82 fact that four men had made the expedition with relatively negative results Niles Register for December 9 1826 carried this announcement Salt Lake was coasted last spring by a It ofGreat General Ashley’s men in canoes who were occupied party four and twenty days in making its circuit They did not exactly ascertain its outlet but passed a place where they mentioned the supposed In his seen it must have been letter to Yarren Robert Campbell as we have recorded the fact that he had gone to Cache (Yillow) G K valley in the spring of 1826 and found the party of four just returned from the lake exploration They had found neither streams coming into the lake nor an outlet on the west side The party had suffered from lack of water 12 Mountains says: Yashington Irving in his Rocky Captain Sublette in one of his early expeditions across the mountains is said to have sent four men in a skin canoe to explore the lake who professed to have navigated all around it but to have suffered excessively from thirst the water of the lake being extremely saltty and there being no fresh streams running into it lames Clyman in his own journal which he did not begin writing until many years after his boat trip around the lake recorded in 1846 tvhile crossing from California to the east via the south shores of the lake that he had made the trip in 1825 13 However since all other evidence points to 1826 11 Clyman James Clyman 12 Washington 13 Clyman op Irving clt American Frontiersman Rocky Mountains 221 I 208 45 |