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for the time, the Diack panei ices have disappeared, and no mat 
ter is visible inthe soil. Thethermometer at sunset 74°; clear and calm. 
October 2.—The sunrise ‘temperature was 48°; the weather clear and 
ealm. Shortly after leaving the encampment, we crossed a stream of clear 
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on the river. 
_ On the opposite side, the vertical fall is perhaps 18 feet high ; and nearer, 
north, about 50 miles distant, were some high snowy peaks of the Salmon 
river mountains ; and in the northeast, the last peak of the range was visible 
at the distance of perhaps 100 miles or more. The river hills consist of 
very broken masses of sand, covered every where withthe same interminabl 
fields of sage, and oceasionally the road is very heavy. We now very fre- 
quently saw Indians, who were strung along the river at every little rapid 
where fish are to be caught, and the ery haggai, haggai, (fish,) was con- 
stantly heard whenever-we passed near their huts, or met them in the road. 
Very many of them were oddly and partially dressed in overcoat, shirt, 
waistcoat, or pantaloons, or whatever article of clothing they!had been able 
f to 5 a 4 7 
Procure in trade from the emigrants; for we had now entirely quitted 
he country where hawk’s bells, beads, and vermilion, were the'current coin, 
and found that here only useful articles, and chiefly elothing, were in great 
request. These, however, are eagerly sought after ; and fora few trifling 
pieces of clothing, travellers may procure food sufficient to earry them to 
the Columbia. 
We made a long stretch across the upper plain, and encamped on the 
bluff, where the grass was very green and good; the soil of the upper 
plains containing a considerable proportion of calcareous matter. This 
green freshness of the grass was very remarkable for the season of the year. 
Again we heard the roar of a fall in the river below, where the water inan 
unbroken volume goes over a descent of several feet. The night is clear, 
and the weather continues very warm and pleasant, with a sunsej tempera- 
ture of 70°. 
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or breceiated conglomerate, consisting of flinty slate petioles am rag 
