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excel it therein. Horses, cattle, and sheep—hogs in 
a less degree—thrive here exceptionally, and multi- ty 
ply with amazing rapidity. The country on the 
Wallamette is also distinguished in this particular. 
The settlement at Vancouver is up to now the largest 
on the Columbia River. The fort is a square build- 
ing, two or three hundred feet long and broad. In 
its midst are the various workshops; but the workmen 
live chiefly outside of the fort in little block houses. 
The people in the employ of the Hudson’s Bay Com- 
pany, mostly Canadians, amount to about two hun- 
dred, and as for the greater part they have married 
Indian women, the whole number of inhabitants may 
be estimated at from seven to eight hundred. 
The fort has laid out a farm in its vicinity. In 
1837, about three thousand acres were in cultivation. 
The produce was: 8,000 bushels of wheat, 5,500 
bushels of barley, 6,000 bushels of oats, 9,000 bush- 
els of peas, and 4,000 bushels of potatoes. Of ani- 
mals they had in the same year about one thousand 
head of cattle, seven hundred hogs, two hundred 
sheep, five hundred horses and forty yoke of draught 
oxen. In addition they have a great threshing ma- 
chine, a distillery, and a grist mill. A saw mill, cut- 
ting 3,000 feet a day, and served by twenty-eight men 
and ten yoke of oxen, lies six miles from Vancouver 
on a little river that flows into the Columbia. The 
surplus products, chiefly flour and boards, the Hud- 
son’s Bay Company exports to the Sandwich Islands 
and to California. For one thousand feet of boards 
The 
Columbia 
River— 
Hudson’s 
Bay 
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