220 NOTES TAKEN. 
Brazos, which here was very crooked, the water very bitter, 
and the bed of stream quicksand. The amount to be sur- 
veyed, twelve square leagues, took of course a much longer 
time than on the Clear Fork, added to which was a difference 
in the kind of ground, a portion of this being quite moun- 
tainous. The surveying party worked diligently, however, 
-and by the twenty-ninth had completed their labours, and on 
the thirtieth, we struck tents and started on our homeward 
trip by way of Fort Belknap. | 
