Show FATHER ESC escalin il IRD COUNTY TY YEARS AGO asking for information to rix ilia ing pith path in our bordens on page ls 1 6 father escalante alija of determining a latitude at night by means of the pole star and finding it 41 19 the next day at noon he found his reading to be 40 69 59 a difference of 20 and not be ing satisfied he took it again by the pole star and the second time got it 41 19 A bisci esancy of 2 20 0 in that latitude Is approximately 22 miles I 1 mention this at this time be cause later on I 1 think a similar err ir crept into eithe computations or the translation because the latitude as given does not correspond with the topography of the country the translator translators s note Is that the spanish league as used by te Is 2 41 miles escalante says that on the of september 1776 he came upon a river before they even had noticed that one was there and took lations by the north star and found themselves to be 39 4 which is ap proximately due west of axtel whereas the consensus of authorities on the subject Is that he was up near to mills about 39 54 a dit dif ference arence of about thirty miles or a little leas less of sept 5 leagues to the SOUTH which it if he was at 39 4 would take him still farther away from his next reading if he went south from and then went the way it Is given in the volume before me he would have come into this portion of millard way down by the beaver county boundary whereas he says after going 5 leagues on the 14 on the 1st and it if he include es 3 more south southeast before he took his abs ovation then a total of 5 plus 14 plus 3 or 22 spanish leagues from 39 4 about 75 miles with his mileage recorded from near axtel and says he Is then at 39 34 which Is about due west of lynndyl lynndal say on the great salt plain you and I 1 cant can t go from axtell to the big open plain fifteen miles west of lynndyl lynndal to be at 39 34 in any 75 miles I 1 feel that an error has crept in somewhere either in computation of latitude or in the translation because beel luse he says he habas was still searching tor for the river at 39 34 when as matter of fact it if at 39 34 he had already crossed the sevier by fifteen miles or so and would not still be searching for or it from his description the next day we wb know that instead of being way up past suga alile on the salt plain he was very close to pah vant butte which he calls el rillo the little mountain that day he went 3 leagues or 8 miles but from the pah vant butte is nearly 25 miles away not 8 miles as recorded there are a number of discrepant disc cles in the record our present road from rom near 0 would bring him it if near the little mountain very close to mud lake south of the pres ent main highway several miles from Pa livant butte out of the county south his big toute route is very easy as he got the next day in the marsh es around clear lake then the feeble beaver creek tol fol lowd up its course south and found its water better went close to the northwest tip of the lava flow at the station of black rock and then to either the spring at walter james farm or the spring out on the flat to the southeast which we now call antelope spring but in this portion of millard county who can clear my difficult dittl cul ties I 1 will thai that k anyone tor for help frank Beckt with sr |