The Shoshones, or Snake Indians, are a brave and numerous people, occupying a large and beautiful tract of country, 540 miles from east to west, and nearly 300 miles from north to south.

It lies betwixt 38 deg.

and 43 deg.

north latitude, and from longitude 116 deg.

west of Greenwich to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, which there extend themselves to nearly the parallel of 125 deg.