the United States. Unique acquaintance to West geography
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Fremont considered, that its unique acquaintance to West geography grants to it the right to join in this work, but it in it have not involved. Therefore he has decided to undertake expedition on own fear and risk and to finish left not finished in 1848 work. In the autumn of 1853 it has acted from a city of Kansas City, has passed through pass Kochetopa and, following on the rivers Gannison and the Grandee, has crossed mountain area. Its way laid through mountains Vasach to paravanu, and therefrom in a southwest direction, to one of southern passes through Sierra-Nevada. Fremont has left the good description of the areas visited by it in the letter in magazine ' Nesho-nel Intellidzhenser '. At this enterprise career Fremonta as the geographer-traveller comes to an end. Its merits were recognised from a number of foreign societies, and it by right takes a place among the largest travellers-pioneers by the western part of the United States. The considerable part of its work differs high accuracy; It had a true eye, and it quickly seized structure of a lay of land. If a little excessive haste involved it from time to time in difficulties and dangers on the other hand, it is necessary to mean, that any other ways it could not reach the purposes put to.
' Fremont was not the pathfinder: he did not search for a track them mastered. It went roads which generally have been found long before it by hunters, hunters and buyers, went on the earths, mostly to already known inhabitants of edge. Its force that in shooting, in supervision and in descriptions of these roads and the earths it has brought a scientific method and technics. For time it was the first class geodesist and the mathematician both the quite good geologist and the botanikom-fan ' (nevins).
Fremont has died in July, 1890 at the age of 77 years.
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