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of ap id pr of Mr. Applegate’s fleet of boats, which suddenly came. 
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To. the emigrants to Oregon, the Nez Percé is a point of ve mu bei 
to those who choose it, the termination of their overland j The 
broad expanse of the river here invites them to embark on ita ease and. 
trees of the forest furnish the means of doing so 
* From the South. Pass to this place is about 1,000 Sled and as itis about 
the, ees distance from that pass to the Missouri river at the mouth of the 
Kansas, may be assumed that 2,000 miles is the necessary o. Som the in 
crossing ofan the. United States to the Pacific ocean on this line 
mouth. of the Great Platte it would be about 100 miles less. 
Mr. McKinley, the commander of the post, received us with proat. civili- 
ty; ; and both to myself, and the heads of the emigrants who were t 
the time, extended the rites of hospitality in a comfortable dinner to which 
he invited us. 
By a Taciatceoetl altitude of the sun, the only observation that the weather 
permitted us to obtain, the mouth of the Walahwalah river is in latitude 
46° 08'.46"'; and, by the road we had travelled, 612 miles from Fort Hall. 
At the.time of our arrival, a considerable bod 
direction of Mr. Apple 
Tat point over which the road led, we obtained another far: view of. 
‘Hood, 150 miles distant. We obtained on the river bank an obser-. 
tion,of the sun at noon, which gave for the latitude 45° 58'08".. The: 
country to to-day was very unprepossessing, and our road bad; and as. we 
toiled fen] plong through deep loose sands, and over fragments of blac 
oleani¢ rock, our laborious travelling was ‘strongly contrasted with. th 
if ly. down the broad river, which here chanced a be =e a 
a purchased. to make 0 our fires ie 
ion, our OD as in latitude Ag! 50' Og 
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