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the Indian who are unsettled in local- foot, were luminously white—an in- 
ity and very uncertain in their di pi commencement of the autumn, 
and which, with the necessary facilities for of which this was the first day. 
the repair of their equipage, wou able ember 24.—The thermometer at sun- 
afford them relief in stock and e was 35°, a blue sky in the west 
the produce of the post, would be of extraor- promod a fine day. The river bottoms 
dinary value to the emigration. . Such ere are narro swampy, with frequent 
t (and all fet which may be establish- sOnEne; rossing the Facls 
Oregon) would naturall e Toad pana alon 
in many , desolate and inhospitable of willows, at the upper end of a group up of ) 
regions. race: about half a mile above the American 
I subjoin an analysis of the soil in the | falls of Snake river. ig { 
river bottom near Fort Hall, which will be here, some. bushes of Levis and 
of assistance in ann you to form some Clarke's currant (rides aureum). The 
correct idea of its gen = Geaates in the | river here enters between i mural gen 
neighboring county. I characterize it as | which consist of a fine ig pe 
good land, but the analysis will show its | the intermediate portion Rp | 
precise properties. crystalline. Gradually becoming thor in 
its downw , these of se 
spines of soil. ated volcanic rete form, with pas ascigs = 
terruptions, characteristic feature 
+ ie nl mf ES hiss Fk | "e os the whole line to the Dalles of - Lower 
eeu Bac: a! bia, resembling a chasm whic 
Carbonate of lime + nee. &. 51 ¢ : 
rent through the ntry, and which 
ae pthed — et eae, pea ies ne river had afi rwards eee for its pe 
q : e immediate valley of the river is a igh 
Organic vegetable m matter wae pass abi rat covered with rd te cks and arte: 
ss : : In uth is a Luma range oy 
paniiatan which, altho not very high, | 
100.00 | are broken ¢ i WS anf 
a great distance to the north is seen the hi 
observations place this post in longi- | snowy line e Salmon river yo 
r 
tude 112° 29° BA", i tiade 43° 01°. 30’!, and 
in elevation above t 
= leave of the hom pa , Ww 
resum: own is valley, the 
weather being very cold, and th 
n hard which the wind blew di- 
orde 
gf hehe 
the wate 
river being een up to the oa and | sk 
After the e gust, the i 
d 
about 110 yards wi 
ing en a a ee 
ily y, with a light air 
peg southward Profited bein, 
e | li mountain known 
rain com- | di 
gf eagiat 
h pate very apts by the soil _— wet ‘ae 
vered with artemisia bushes, 
ame entirely co 
Be ang At noon we encam 
of 
in front of which stand out prominently ig 
the ~ the mig — ragged looking 
onl as the 
Three "Buttes. 
us 54°. 
A few hundred y. 
the left bank of the river, is an 
which we obtained some 
