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the river walls; and when I reached the |ter at sunrise at 29°. Making an unusually 
neighborhood of the hill, the surface of the | early start, we crossed the river at a gooc 
plain was rent into frequent fissures and | ford; and, following for about three hours 
ehasms of the chong engi volcanic rock, a trail which led along the bottom, we en- 
there was not enteiaut light to sdivateate | ridge, and halted to-noon in the ravine of a 
fermen and which I had not time to de-| pretty sd stream, timbered with cotton- 
end. Arrived at the summit of the hill,} wood o arge size, ash-leaved maple, | 
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paces in jeer rt oa 60 feet at| very extended views pre 
the faqs depth. The walls, whi Green river Mood = ba no 
perfectly e bae, and Siniacd lke erties There was a slight rain in thd ypeersst o> r part 
_ ry in a very regular manner, we mpos- | of the day, and at noon, when the thermo- 
ed of a brown-colereh scores hs evi- | meter had risen to 79.5°, we had a brighs 
a moder i li. 
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fire, 
whith gee left noe contorted and twisted | emerged on an open green flat among the 
by its violent ac hills, timbered with groves, and bordered | 
Our route firing the afternoon was a lit-| with cane thickets, but without water. A | 
tle rough, being (in the direction we had| pretty little rivulet, coming out of the hil!) 
* taken) over a volcanic plain, where our aa side, and overhung by tall flowering plants | 
gress was sometimes obstructed by fissures, | of a species I had not hitherto seen, fur- ‘ 
and black beds com sa of fragments of ished us with a good camping plac @ 
e rock. On both sides, the mountains ap-| evening was cloudy, the temperature at 
peared very eat but pervert well tim-| sunset 69°, and the elevation 5,140 feet 
bered. mong the plants occurring along the line 
August 26.—Crossing a point of ridge of road during the day, émnettes des ee 
which makes in to the river, we fell upon | ries (grindelia squarrosa) was in consid 
it again b encamped on the ble abu , and is among the very few 
right bank, opposite e encampment of | plants aren le 
three lodges o 2 5 s. They visit- 
Snake Indian try havin umnal appearance, 
ed us during the evening, and we obtained | in the crepe and yellow Lome, and dried- 
from them a small quantity of roots of dif-| up gra: n dur- 
ferent kinds, in exchange for goods. Among | ing the cn wiih a vine naan, 4 sary shy 
the: a sweet root of very pleasant fla- | and wild. 
yor, having somewhat the taste of preserved} August t 28. Raina the “ we had a 
ince. endeavors to become acquaint- | thunder storm, with moderate rain, 
| ed with the plants which furnish to the In-| has made the air this morning ve 
- dians a portion of their support were only | pre thermometer an at 559. rin} 
gradually successful, and after long and per-| our encampment a e Cane > and 
severing attention; and even after obtain- per Praes the trail on which we had been 
ing, I did not succeed in preserving them | prvhendny tse and which ait fe Sobabipave 
ye : ed 
root cut up into su sich small pieces, | about an hour’s travelling, again 
be dhe Mthags entified by its taste, | the river. We were now in a valley five 
when the bulb was met with in ee form|or six miles wide, between mountain 
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y afer “ slow and winding day’s march of 27 
_| encamped at a slough on the river. 
