_ tion appeared alre 
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the Vermillion river, I reached the ford in 
time to meet the carts, and, crossing, en- 
rly 
ine ue Dai was “coh the eseyptern om 
~ being at 45>, Quitting the rbot 
the road ran along tie. plied, on over a roll 
ing country, oo in view of the Kan- 
sas from "eight to twelve miles distant. 
ery compact 
4 ‘0 ons in weight, were scat- 
/ tered along the hills; and many beautif 
plants in flower, among which the cn 
heads “of the 
0 
miles, and pitched oie ‘tents a 
waters of a small = he now nearly 
a but having in ei els veral fine spr ~— 
The barometer indicated a iPsonsilcrable ris 
in the country— inne about pet hun dred 
feet above the sea—and the increased eleva- 
eady to have some slight 
influence upon the vegetation. The night 
was cold, with a heavy dew ; 
B 
evening on 
the thermome- 
ter at 10 p. m. standi t 46°, baromete: 
.483. Our position was in ~~ 96° 
14’ 49’, and latitude 39° 30 
‘he morning of the 20th was 
southerly breeze and a bright sky; and at 
seven o'clock we w 
to-day was rather more broken, ri Tis- 
| ene and covered everywhere with frag- 
s limestone, particularly on 
small, t 
of si 
“the summits, where they were 
r | have their i insect 
(1842, 
_ current, through a well-timbered val- 
To-day antelope were seen running 
over the hills, and at Srening iawn sonia 3 
us deer. Longitude of the camp 
w ’, latitude 39° 45° 08.” rmome- 
imag clear for astronomical at sunset 75°. A arate southerly 
_ tions, which placed us in longitude 96° 04’ | breeze and fine morning given place to 
OR; ey Tatitade 39° 15/ 19”. At sunset,|a gale, with indications of bad weather; 
- the barometer was at 28.845, thermometer | when, after rch of ten miles, we halted 
on a small creek, where the water 
We serge ex ig morning at half | stood in deep pool - the bank of thi 
opment creek limestone made its appearance in a 
stratum about one foot thiek. In the after: 
hei Arm tn aaacned to suffer for an 
The road led along a high dry 
k lines of timber indicated the 
n the plains below; but 
r near, and the day was 
hot wind, and the 
1 | amorpha hi 
riable bloom—in some places bending be- 
neath the weight of purple clusters; in oth- 
ers without a flow t seems to love best 
si sunny slopes, w 
— of the prairie flowe 
ahbsin eri or prairie sage, as it is va- 
rio aly y called, is increasing in size, and glit- 
ters like silvers as pr ae outhern breeze turns 
up its leaves to sie sun. All these plants 
abitants, sot: the howe? 
° arlemisia 
small accompan ‘it aed h ev 
7 elevation char latitude ; and wens 
have seen s 
have always remarked, too, on tbe. flower a 
large b resembling it in 
at a little dis- 
aoe 
