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On the 3d of September, they came in view of the noble 

 Columbia River; they descended its course partly on foot, 

 partly in canoes, and stepped on shore at Fort Vancouver, 

 the end of their journey across the continent. Six months 

 and three days had elapsed since they had left Philadelphia. 

 Such was the first part of this adventurous journey. They 

 remained at Fort Vancouver the rest of the autumn, still ex- 

 ploring the environs of the Fort, and revisiting the fertile 

 Valley of the Walla-Walla; but, anxious to escape the wet 

 and unpleasant winter of that region, and to visit other parts 

 where the inclemency of the season could not interfere with 

 the prosecution of their respective pursuits, they took passage 

 on board a Boston brig, ready to sail for the Sandwich Islands. 

 They put to sea towards the middle of December, and landed 

 on the Island of Oahu, on the 5th of January, 1835. 



Here, for the first time, Mr. Nuttall enjoyed the beauties 

 of a tropical vegetation, ^' a climate that knows no change, 

 but is that of a perpetual spring and summer." There he 

 remained a couple of months, visiting the different islands of 

 that happy group, and collecting plants and sea-shells. Thence 

 separating from his companion, Mr. Townsend, he took pas- 

 sage on board a vessel sailing for the coast of California, where 

 he landed early in the spring, to enjoy new emotions of plea- 

 sure. All again was new to him ! He remained in California 

 a great part of the spring and summer, actively engaged in 

 making collections, and returned to the Sandwich Islands, 

 where he embarked on a Boston vessel, to come back to the 

 United States, round Cape Horn. 



Mr. Nuttall arrived in Boston in the beginning of October, 

 1835. When he went to the counting-house of Messrs. Bryant 

 & Sturges, the owners of the vessel which had brought him 

 home, with the view to pay for his passage, these gentlemen 

 courteously refused to receive the money of one who had been 

 travelling, not for his own amusement, but for the benefit of 

 mankind ! 



Upon his return to the United States, he again took up his 

 abode in Philadelphia, working alternately upon his rich col- 

 lections of plants, minerals, and land and sea shells. In the 

 small room of the Academy, then corner of Twelfth and George 



