cS “here many years, as they were crumbling to pieces. At 3 o’clock 
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in its general character that it at once catches the eye of the tray- 
er. 
‘On either side of us we observed little circular spots marking the 
places where the buffalo once wallowed; forthese huge animalshaye _ 
a habit of throwing themselves on their sides upon the ground; 
they then commence walking, as it were, with their feet on the 
circumference of a circle; this causes their bodies to revolve, and 
thus result circular depressions in the prairies; these, after a rain, are 
for a long time filled with water, with which the traveller is often | 
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fain to slake his thirst. 
These old wallows are now overgrown with plants that grow 
‘more luxuriantly than on other portions of the prairie. There is 
‘the splendid coreopsis (coreopsis tinctoria) and the silver margined : 
_ euphorbia; (euphorbia: marginata;) these at once arrest the at- 
n. ; 
tentio $ s. 
It is seldom, now, that the buffalo range this far; no signs of old 
exctrements are to be seen, and the bleached bones left upon the 
plains by the hunter have long since mouldered away. ‘Towards 
the close of the day we found the frontal bone of a buffalo’s skull, 
the only sign, in addition to the wallows, of this animal having 
been once abundant. a 
Along the road were numbers of the beetle, laying in their wm, 
ter stores, “haud nonignari aut incauta futuri.’”? We stopped to 
noon, at 11} o’elock. After a halt of half an hour, we starte 
again, and at 12} o’clock, formed our camp on Turkey creek. 
Here not a stick of timber is to be seen, but we found some beau. 
tiful plants with brilliant scarlet flowers (malva pedata) and roots 
which are eatable. We also obtained specimens of the pomme 
blanche, (psoralea esculenta,) and in the waters of Turkey creek 
we reached the Little Arkansas,°a tributary of the great nivel i: | 
ased as we entered camp, and as ee ek j 
appeared abundant and at no great distance, Menard. S 
