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my great surprise, I found, on the contrary, that this news. had thrown 
them all into the greatest consternation; and, on every side, I heard only 
one exclamation, ‘ Z/ ny aura pas de vie pour nous. _ All the night, scat- 
tered groups were assembled around the fires, smoking their pipes,and 
listening with the greatest eagerness to exopgernee ceed Indian hos- 
tilities ; “and in the morning. I found a Sheree % 
of h ey, 3 nees, and; “some- 
nee as ‘the G7 were ka oe and. we were 
anxious to i by the freshness of the morning. The soft marly form- 
ation, over which we were now journeying, frequently offers fo the trav- 
err views of remarkable and ee beauty. ‘To several of these 
ocalities, where the winds and the rain have worked the bluffs into 
pins shapes, the voyageurs ey cine n names according to some fan- 
ied resemblance. One of these, called the Court-Aouse, we passed about 
x miles from our encampment of last night, and toward noon came in 
sight of the celebrated Chimney rock. It looks, at this distance of about 
the-carts ae ar ae 
- tate beaten cas 
2 va lay of of the ° North BEL. ao ariable brea 
iles. Fifteen ‘miles from. the chimney 
2 river strikes th 
thirty miles, like what it is called—the long chimney of a steam gory es- 
tablishment, or a shot tower in Baltimore. No thing occurred to rrupt — 
the quiet of the day, and we encamped | on the river, after a ae cal tee : 
ty- miles. Buffalo had become very scarce, and but one had been 
killed, of which the meat had been cut into thin slices, es “hang around 
