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man, proceeding to a trading establishment at the confluence 

 of the Verdigris River, one hundred and thirty miles distant, 

 he ascended again the Arkansas up to the Grand River, and 

 made an excursion to the Osage salt-works. On his return 

 to the trading establishment of the Verdigris, he set out 

 again on foot to the Salt Lake River, the western limit of his 

 journey. 



It was then the middle of August ; the heat was excessive ; 

 but could not abate the unconquerable ardor of our explorer. 

 At last, wearied by long and difficult marches, under the rays 

 of a burning sun, suffering from thirst, insufficient food, as 

 well as from exposure to the night dews ; being, moreover, 

 harassed by the necessity of constant vigilance, to avoid 

 being entrapped by the neighboring Indians, his constitution 

 sunk under so many trials of body and mind. He was seized 

 with violent fever, among the Osage tribe, from whose treach- 

 ery and dishonesty he experienced both losses of effects and 

 perils of life, and was long deprived of the pleasures of his 

 usual excursions. He finally succeeded, with much trouble 

 and sufferings, in reaching the garrison of Bellepoint, where 

 he remained sick until the 16th of October, when he started 

 again to visit the hot springs of Washita. On the 3d of No- 

 vember following, he arrived at Fort Pecannerie, now Lewis- 

 burg, on his way home, and reached New Orleans on the 18th 

 of February, 1820, his constitution much impaired. Thus did 

 Nuttall, in his enthusiastic love of science, perform, in the 

 space of sixteen months, an arduous and perilous journey of 

 more than five thousand miles, mainly over a country never 

 visited before by scientific explorers, and still in the undis- 

 puted possession of the wikl Indian. 



Mr. Nuttall had returned to his old quarters in Phila- 

 delphia, early in the spring of 1820. AVith his usual activity 

 and perseverance, he went immediately to work, arranging 

 his Arkansas collections, and preparing the narrative of his 

 journey, which he published the following year, under the 

 title of. Journey into the hiterior of Arkansas in 1818 and 

 1819, with an Appendix, consisting, — 1st, of An Account of 

 the ancient aboriginal Population of the Banks of the Missis- 



