The bottoms 
are extensive ; comaeamiale timber suffi- 
cient; the soil aa, and well to the 
Ss: s suited to such an — 
military post, 
ed region 
settlement, kre be of great ales aaa I 
er 
fow 
ita Aste subsistence; eet its quantity will 
sustain any amount of cattle, and make this 
: — a = colic region. 
et here an Indian family on horse- 
sea—probably only an uncertain approxima- 
tion, as at the time of rr. it was 
blowing a violent gale d from’ the 
northwest, wvith cumuli peastanes in masses 
ay ot 
over the sky, bright 
ar. We descended, bya steep slope, into 
a broad ; from fou 
to five sntlonteiaet coming down immediate- 
ly upon one of the Pan- 
k river, which i 
ground. The appearan the ry 
t 
generally 
being calm 
a tempera 
velling seven or 
reach 
ot pl not high 
ably bright, and 
Longitude, from mean of satellite and chro- 
112° 297 527"; 
io 44? 40) 
r é 3 we emerged’ 
Cyn lumbia, i in ight of the 
wn land- 
occa 
a| er; and Ateeueatiy after a very frosty morn- 
w hours would render 
o 
+ 
= 
, a 
a-* 
rE 
3 
- 
boa 
e left. 
rs found on itat night a warm and 
comfort- , 
frequently du- 
and latitude, 
cough wheel 
the western "Bates, 
et 
