1843.) 
ascended by a good 
a dividing meen but re * ree 
rie covered with of an 
ceous s which eg in ren 
places lrg and na the road racking to 
a carria In this rock the wens of depo- 
sition are distinctly he and the meta- 
ith un. 
‘tains here are densely covered with tall and 
| handsome trees d with the 
| green of a variety of pines, is the yellow of 
us 
From the waters of rh yp 84 a worn | Lime 
j 
i men _ 138 
Oxide o! 
2.21 
nema ep matter, partly decomposed 8.16 
. 
Water and loss . : 5.46 
Phosphate of lime . 1.01 
100.00 
he. elevation % ae encampment iz 
2,940 rae eens the 
8.—It te in an hour be~ 
fore asm eee per i § until 10 o’clock: 
; the: European larch ), which | the sky ep overcast, an 
» loses its leaves in the fall. From its present | ture at s 
color, we we bled to see that it forms oe Phnlpont our journey somewhat fie 
ge proportion of the forests on the moun- | than usual, travellin; ng in a nearly north 
tains, and is here a magnificent tree, attain- rection ae this beautiful valley ; 28 
ing —— the height of 200 feet, _— 
1 belie 
in aes monn we reached a high sates of 
the Liesing ridge, from which we obtained 
good view of the Grand Rond—a beauti- 
ful Jevel basin, or mountain 
would de- 
ke, or marsh, very 
which was covered sah with a fine white 
Peat aia “ives in one hundred 
bode hectares in one hi 
PT old old grass had been lately burnt off 
from the surrounding ante, pep eri at 
passed, there 
eS eer ne 
i 
fe 
3 
S 
4 
g 
2, 
ave seen in our | a 
recent growth 
ean d 
ley of the 
710.81 | 
ut noon reached a place on one of 
principal streams, where T be determined te 
leave the emigrant trail, in t 
2) 
nally turned directly off to the left; 
e mountain in shout 
day een to oe ee 
fore, t after a very ro 
crossing, issues Lage mountains by the 
hea the Umatilah river, we continued 
_ valley, fol- 
been indi- 
y Mr. Payette, and encai 
at the northern pecan of the Grand cat eet: 
on a aa; ae _ of very deep —_ 
— any a urrent, 
e pines heros “a ie low hills at the creek} ; 
pare in the northwest corner of the is a 
very heavy body of timber, which dese: 
to the plain. ‘The clouds, which had rested 
sides during 
- low along 
pd day, rose gradually up in Se. peti wy 
in the eveni 
clear, with a temperature at coment 
So 
uring h the e: expoeed ther- 
— sedi Sead ss 32°, and at sun- 
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