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 *5° T. C. Elliott. in the spring and summer (1829) across that same region, enduring heat and dust and narrowly escaping from rascally Indians we know as the Modocs ; but telling those Indians (on May 29th, 1829) that in three months he would see them again, he started homeward to Fort Nez Perces, which was always the point of departure and return. Of the last four of these expeditions we are in possession, through the cour- tesy of Miss Agnes C. Laut, of copies of the original jour- nals kept by Mr. Ogden and on deposit in the H. B. House at London (see Vols. 10 and 11 of the Oregon Historical Quar- terly). The data that he obtained was used by Arrowsmith, the famous map maker of London, on his maps published during the thirties and forties which were dedicated to the "Hon'ble Hudson's Bay Company/' and commonly used by the fur traders at their posts. There are many names yet remaining through the regions he explored that appear in his journals, but the only locality still named after him is that in Utah, where there is an Ogden Hole, Valley, River, Canyon and City, though it remains yet tq^ be definitely de- termined what special circumstance led the American trap- pers to so designate that locality or when the circumstance occurred. There is little doubt as to his having been the ear- liest explorations of the region around the westerly and north- erly end of great Salt Lake, and as to the localities bearing his name, the following letter, written on the 7th of May, 1909, by Mr. Charles F. Middleton, of Ogden, Utah, will be sufficient authority: "I settled in Ogden in 1850, and have grown up with the town. * * * Ogden 1 was named after Mr. Ogden of whom you write, both as to the river and city. * * * Ogden Hole, or as some used to call it, Mr. Ogden's Hole, is a low divide about seven miles north of center of Ogden City. It used to be the only route over which the trappers and Indians traveled into and out of Ogden valley which lies directly east and north of Oregon City." iAs to the name Ogden this positively proves that the name was already there when the first settlers arrived in 1849-50, but as to the location of "Ogden's Hole," and the occasion for that designation, other explanations are given and will be further mentioned in connection with the Ogden Journals.