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Dalles joined that on which we mere travelling. After passing for several 
_ Miles over an artemisia plain, t 
eg eR 5 To-day. the country was all pine foes and beautiful 
weather made our journey delightful. It was too warm at noon ‘for winter 
_ clothes ; and the snow, which lay every where in patches enous hates, 
was melting rapidly, After a few hours’ ride, we came upon 
in the ed of, a forest, which proved to me principal tien of of Fall 
river. It was occasionally 200 feet wide—son?times narrowed to 50 feet ; 
epeaters very clear, and frequently deep. We ascended along the river, 
sometimes presented sheets of foaming cascades; its banks occa- 
sionally blackened with masses of scoriated rock, and found a good en- 
-campment on the verge of an open bottom, which had been an old camp- . 
_ Ing ground of the Cayuse Indians; A great number of deer horns were 
_ dying about, indicating game in the neighborhood. The timber was uni- 
mly large ; some of the pines measuring 22 feet in spipcumforance at the 
ae and 12 to 13 feet at six fast above. 
* a 2 river, is heard the roaring of falls. The rock. ame the beak of the 
stream, and the ledge over which it falls, isa scoriated basalt, with a br ight 
‘metallic fracture. The stream goes over in one clear pitch, succeeded by 
a foaming cataract of several hundred yards. In the little. bottom owe 
the falls, a entonnoir, s below. 
We had made an early encampment, and in the course of the evening 
_ Mr. Fitzpatrick joined us here with the lost mule. Our lodge poles were 
nearly worn out, and we found here a handsome set, leaning against one 
- the trees, very ie and ore py wes Had ane owners been. ae we 
purchased 
"Gnesi their pla 
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with fi 
Teoodle Te .velling ground ; thé frail i lending 
ils, in the pine foe aad. sometimes over 
