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We crossed the Roseaux, and encamped on the left bank ; halting early for 
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on the same stream, near several lodges of Snake Indians, from whom we 
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a natural resting and recruiting station for travellers, now, and in all time 
to come. The bottomsare extensive ; water excellent ; timber sufficient ; 
great value here; and cattle and horses would do well where grass and salt 
so much abound. The lake will furnish exhaustless supplies of salt. All 
in the fall. The beasts of the Indians were fat upon it; our own found it 
a good subsistence ; and its quantity will sustain any amount of cattle, and 
nake this truly a bucolic region. 
___ We met bere an Indian family on horseback, 
and were returning loaded. 
ended, by a steep slope, into a broad open valley—good soil; from 
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range of mountains of 1 either side 
eky epg seg eel the u with a little timber, 
: 7 hag y rock onthe right, < @ oD i art : : eh 5 
