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to England across the continent to Hudson's Bay, and then accom- 

 panied Mr. Dease to Kettle Falls on the Columbia, where a new establish- 

 ment was about to be formed by him. Of all the places I have seen this 

 is by far the finest : high rugged mountains, fertile valleys, and this 

 immense body of water dashed over a pitch 24 feet perpendicular, the 

 country abounding with game. Many fine plants were collected here not 

 before in my collection ; and Tetrao Richardsonii and T. urophasianellus 

 were so plentiful that they formed a principal part of food. 



Mr. Dease kindly gave me the use of three of his best horses and 

 engaged two hunters to attend me to Spokane, distant about seventy miles 

 in a northerly direction from this spot, which was his former residence. 

 On May 2nd I set out for that purpose and travelled slowly, finding the 

 country interesting, and arrived late on the third day. Mr. Jacques 

 Finlay was here, and obligingly undertook to repair the lock of my gun, and 

 on this occasion I felt happy in having it in my power to give him some 

 assistance in provisions. For several days he had had nothing excepting 

 a sort of cake made of Lichen jubatum, Linn., and a few roots of Scilla 

 esculenta 1 and of Leivisia rediviva. I spent a few days here and returned 

 to Kettle Falls on Sunday the 14th. On this journey I found Ribes 

 viscosissimum, R. petiolare? R. tenuiflorum,3 Astragalus glareosus, a new 

 species of Pinus, P. ponderosa, and two new species of Viscum one, the 

 larger species, on the pine mentioned, the smaller on P. Banksiana, which 

 is not rare, though a smaller tree than that found on the east side of 

 the Rocky Mountains. One large bear, Ursus horribilis, was killed by 

 young Finlay ; it was too bulky to be preserved. 



1 continued in the neighbourhood of this place till June 5th, when I 

 availed myself of the opportunity of descending in one of the boats with 

 Mr. William Kittson to Wallawallah, on the plains, where I should remain 

 for four weeks in order to secure the herbage of these regions. I had 

 already three large bundles of select plants and upwards of forty varieties 

 of seeds, among which were Chelone Scouleri,* Claytonia lanceolata,* 

 Erythronium maximum^ and Rubus nutkanus ; of birds a very interesting 

 species of Scolopax. 



At 6 P.M. on the 8th our descent had averaged 115 miles a day, and 

 the high water was not then at full height. On my descent I found 

 Pentstemon deustus on the narrows above Okanagan, Malva Munroi 

 [sic] 7 on the same place, Eriogonum spJiaerocephalum on the Stony 

 Islands, Abronia vespertinas and Phacelia ramosissima near the Priests 

 Rapid ; and on the clay hills above Okanagan and near the Big or Great 

 Bend, Pentstemon speciosus.v 



* Camassia esculenta, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. p. 186. 



2 R. hudsonianum, var. S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot. p. 334. 

 * R. aureum var. tenuiflorum, S. Wats. loc. cit., p. 332. 



4 = Pentstemon Scouleri, see Bot. Reg. t. 1277 = P. Menziesii var. Scouleri, A. Gray, 

 Syn. Fl. N. Am. ii. i. p. 260. 



5 (?) C. caroliniana var. sessilifolia, S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot. p. 117. 



6 E. grandiflorum var. gigantum, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 298. 



7 Malvastrum Munroanum, S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot. p. 138. 



8 A. mellifera, Choisy, in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. p. 435. 



9 P. glaber, A. Gray," Syn. Fl. N. Am. ii. i. p. 262. 



