79 aa J 
trable. ee te. on the oe bank of be Bae in the point-of lava at its 
confi lee with the e Miss —three e hun red Band. fifteen miles, according 
Te ny i junctio 
ie; . 
1e. junction we had tid tiie ed Bf ay Platte *oceupied wah nu- 
nds, many of them very darge, and all weil mbered ; spossess- 
ll as-the, bottom lands of the river, a very excellent soil. Wi 
without timber. A portion of aoe consist of low soul: covered 
with a profusion of fine grasses, 
the remaining part is high ni river 
the floods, iy  breadt th o ) 
readth, from shore to shore, 
of the valley, with the various ac- 
d whatever I = thought interest- 
esta FPA died a wide, a 
at at the wot auieats on the op- 
we ibis ak Sarpy’s 
3 in security and comfort . 
re of bein® again within eo pale of civilizat 
boat onthe stocks ; a few«days sufficed to ome 
ternoon of the 4th, we embarked on the Missouri. All our ~anpeae > 
horses, ree the materiel of the camp—had been sold at public aue- 
i . Bellevue... The ante me my party enabled me to man the boat 
ed every h 5 and we descefided rapidly. Early-on 
halted to make-some astronomical observa- 
'S, exacilSfoar- months since we had left 
n Chouteau, on the same river, ten miles 
spe, we hat em in s 
issouri, maki 
‘il with other re- 
nd in the a pendices ‘which. aecetipany this report. At 
et of our remaining effects was made; and, leaving that 
en on the 18th; I had a honor ‘to: ce: 2h to. you at the city 
y by st 
or W sshington on the 29th of Octobe 
forks, and five hundred and - 
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