Mormon History, May 22, 1847

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 22d The brethren found A part of a petrified leg bone of A Mamouth. It was from the knee joint downward. The piece was 17 inch long, 11 inches wide & weighed 27 lbs.
We travled to day 7 1/2 miles & nooned & in the Afternoon 8 miles & camped for the sabbath. Whole distance of the day 15 1/2 m.
Our road has been vary strait to day but we came over 2 1/2 miles of the worst Bluff sandy & Hilly that we have past on the rout. We have also past several large creek beds of dry sand. The Bluffs on our rout to day have presented the most singular natural senery that I ever beheld in my travels on the earth. It has the greatest appearance of the old walls & ruins of the castles of Europe from the size of chimneys to 100 feet square or more. Bodies of earth & rock that Appears as though it was formed out of clay stand erect scattering through the Bluffs from 10 to 100 feet high with perpendicular sides as strait as walls of A building while all the earth around them have been washed away to their base with rain & time.
A spring of Cold water was found in the top of one of these peaks Apparently in a small basin of stone. There are considerable number of rattle snakes come out of these bluffs. I saw near A dozen to day. A good share of the rout this Afternoon the face of the earth is barren Almost destitute of grass.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

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