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CONTENTS... 
APPENDIX B. 
Survey of Fort Pierre reserve—Reconnaissance from Fort Pierre to Big Shyenne, and 
sketch 
APPENDIX C. Z 
Report of September 4, 1855, and sketch of battle ground at Bluewater creek....... 38 
APPENDIX D. 
+ Meteorology—General remarks and explanations—Notes on the weather—Table I. Ob- 
servations, altitudes, and distances from Fort Pierre to Fort Kearny—Table II. 
Distances and altitudes from Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie—Table Ill. Hourly ee 
psychrometrical observations—Table 1V. Elastic force of vapor, hourly—Table V. Vn 
Elastic force of vapor, 7 a. m., 
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p.m.—Table VI. Hourly observa- 
tions of barometer No. 1014— Table Vil. tn observations of barometer No. 
1013—Table VIII. Observations for-altitude of Fort Pierre—Table 1X. Correc- 
tions for daily curve of pressure 
APPENDIX E. 
Se note on section in ravine of Eau qui Court river, by W. P. Blake—Geological a 
n y D V. Hayden—Hy sri cfeengs basin of the Missouri— ae. 
seit of w ribet sbepione—t tau qui Court—White river—Teton o 
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river—Shyenne river—Moreau, Grand, and Cannon Ball rivers—Little Missouri 
Lands—Fossils from the Bad ande~esriy of atmosphere—Climate— 
Geographical distribution of plants and anima 
MAPS. 
A. Map of a portion of the Dacotah country, on a scale of 1 to 600,000, embracing all the @x- 
plorations within the limits compassed by it, including those of Major Long, J. N 
Nicolet, Captain Fremont, and Captain Stansbury. 
2. Map, ona scale of 1 to 300,000, giving location of the different bands of indiana, 
such other information as could be obtained from the trappers and hunters 
3. Barometric profile of route from Fort Pierre to-Fort Kearny 
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