Show 148 few miles to the north Doubling the northern cape of the island the party landed on the north side and ascended to the A more difficult summit to erect a station point of ascent hardly have been selected Stansbury says: "This was a work of severe labour as the island was at least eight or nine hundred feet high the timber heavy and the ascent in could some exceeding an angle of forty-fiv- e would have been much easier to have reached places very steep degrees" It the summit from the south or east side It was on this first ascent that Stansbury noticed the cross carved on "a large and singular mass of schistose rock" the cross carved by Kit Carson and associates when I A This island had been given they were with Fremont in 1843 the name "Castle Island" by Albert Carrington and the "Mud Hen" crew in 1848 Fremont had named it "Disappointment Island" because it failed to produce the wonderful things he and his men had expected Stansbury however "deemed it but due to the first adventurous explorer of this distant region to name it after him who first set foot upon its shores and have therefore called it Fremont Island"12 He also made a search for the cover of the object end of Fremont’s spyglass left there by the explorer seven years 1 128 11 Supra 12 Stansbury Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great p Salt Lake 159 |