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Ayer Gift 76 John P. Bent 169 Probably by Daniel Hale Haskell Friday September 7th 1849,- Pleasant, we left camp around 7AM, we stopped two or three hours to noon, in the PM, we saw The Log house built by the Emigrants that perished in the mountains. here, in 1846, we stopped here some time looking about - we saw the bones of Their Animals laying about here, but those of the persons that perished here, have all been collected together, "by a company sent out by the US Officers for that purpose" and were buried in a vault, dug by them, inside of the Log house. The Emigrants had erected unclear, from appearances we should judge, the snow to have been some 15, or 20 feet, deep here/ at that time, we think so. From the fact of the Trees being cut off about that distance from the ground. The building, no doubt was built before the snow was deep, as soon, as they found there was no chance for