[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 7th The two companies started out before us this morning. We travled 7 3/4 miles & nooned on A small creek which scarsly afforded water for our stock & but little grass. While here Another Mo company of 13 waggons passed us. We were in fair view of Laramie Peak with its top coverd with snow.
I found an Abundance of Sweet thisaly in the bitter creek bottom whare we camped last night. Much of the shrubery which we past to day was the black currant & goosbury.
We travled this Afternoon 5 1/4 miles & camped for the night on the Horse shoe Creek in the most splendid feed we have met with on the journey. The other three companies went ahead.
Hors shoe Creek is heavily timbered with cotton wood Ash & willow. It is quite A large Stream. I went to fishing with a hook & line to see if I Could not get some trout but I cought nothing.
The Black Hills Are A good deal timbered with pine. The Hunters brought in two black tailed deer & one Antilope to night. Distance of the day 13 mils.
Professor Pratt took several Barometrical observations at Larimie during 3 days & found the highth above the level of the sea to Be 4,090 feet. The Lattitude was 42°12'13". By a mean of six sights with a good sextant the Longitude west from Greenwich was in time 6 h 46 m 47 s.5 equal to 104°11'53". Lat of the warm springs west of Laramie 42°15'6".
[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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