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the road descends from the hilly ground to the Fire hole river where we camp for the night, on a sandy black pine level Deer. geese. Ducks. & other game -- Distance 24 miles Sunday August 10 At two miles we cross the East Fork of the Fire Hole River 20 yds wide & being now fairly in the Lower Geyser basin, we camp for the day & turn our horses out - Distance 2 miles Monday August 11 1879 Having visited all the great natural curiosities of the Lower Basin, we set out at noon for the Upper Basin, nine miles distant - Our course was nearly South across a low section of swampy land for about 3 miles when we enter timbered lands along the river bank - Reach upper Baisn at 3 P.M. Distance 9 miles Tuesday Aug 12 1879 Remained and more thoroughly explored the great curiosities of the Upper Geyser Basin - For more full particulars and descriptions, see printed descriptions -

Newspaper clipping "THE MADISONIAN Saturday, August 9, 1879. THOS. DEYARMON, Editor and Propriator THOS BAKER, . . . Associate. Capt. L. L. Williams, an old Oregonian and mountaineer, was in the city the first of the week, en route to the Geysers with a small party of wonder-seekers. The Captain passed over this country from Fort Benton to Fort Hall, in 1849, at which time he was in the employ of the Fur Company. He is a rough looking old chap, who bears the marks of many years of frontier life, and looks good for many more, yet."