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BRIGHAM YOUNG.—Ffor sketch of life see Annex No. 25.

CENTERVILLE—is the next station, four
miles from Farmington. The description
of one Mormon village will do for nearly
ail; good farms and crops are the rule,
where the land is irrigated, and none where
it is not.

Woop’s Crossrne—comes next, two
miles further, being the station for the lit-
tle village of Bountiful, on the left, and is
in the midst of the best cultivated and best
producing land in the Territory.

The course of our road from Ogden to
Salt Lake is almost due south, while the
Wasatch Mountains, for 30 miles, describe

a huge circle in the middle to the east-
ward. The lower pointof this circle we
are fast approaching, and will reach in
about two miles, just at the point of the
mountain ahead, where steam is rising.
There, under the point of that huge rock,
boils up a hot spring, in a large volume,
forming a creek several feet in width, with
a depth of six inches, and it is very hot.
There is no nonsense about this spring; it
will boil an egg in two minutes.

The highest peak in the mountain,
close to the eastward of these springs al-
luded to, is 1,200 feetabove the valley, and is