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-this beautiful genus introduced by Mr. Douglas. 
NORTH-WESTERN PARTS OF NORTH AMERÍCA. 
mak, we saw a ridge of snowy moun- 
tains, and one which was very conspic- 
uous, and of a conical form in the dis- 
tance, far exceeding the other in height. 
This I have no doubt is Mount Jefferson, 
of Lewis and Clarke. Another was equally 
striking due East, and one due North: 
the former, Mount Hood, and the latter 
Mount Saint Helens, of Vancouver; their 
height must be very great, at least ten thou- 
pand or edi thousand feet, ad I am in- 
thirds are 
ped insnow, of which hare ishardly any sen- 
sible diminution even in summer, immense 
barriers of ice rendering every attempt to 
hih Si 1 d e I dis hI From 
the Grand Rapid to the Great Falls, seventy 
miles, the banks are steep, rocky, and in 
many places rugged; and the hills gradually 
diminish in elevation, and are thinly cover- 
ed with stunted timber and shrubs but a few 
feet high. Here we were no longer fanned 
by the huge Pine, the Thuja and Acer, nor 
gratified by observing the perpetual quiver 
of the beautiful Populus tremuloides. Far 
as the eye can reach, there is but a dreary 
waste of barren soil, thinly covered with 
scanty herbage. Here however I found 
the beautiful Clarckia pulchella, (Bot. 
Mag. t. 2918.), Calochortus macrocarpus, 
(Bot. Reg. t.1152.), Lupinus aridus, (Bot. 
Reg. t. 1242.), and leucophyllus, (Bot. 
Reg. t. 1124.), Brodiea grandiflora, (Bot. 
Mag. t. 9877. Bot. Reg. t. 1183.) $c. The 
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present bed of the river at the Falls, is six 
hundred feet lower than the former one, 
and of decomposed granite. I could not 
at this season, go higher than a few miles 
above the Falls, but was amply repaid by 
Purshia tridentata, (Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 
v. 1.2.58.) Bartonia albicaulis, (Bot. Reg. 
t. 1446.), Collomia grandiflora, (Bot. Mag. 
t. 2894. Bot. Reg. 1174.), and several 
Pentstemons,? and seeds of many desirable 
plants, many of which I secured during 
this expedition. 
Early in the morning of the 19th July, I 
' To this genus the Cercocarpus of Humboldt and 
unth is very ‘ints allied, of which a species was 
afterwards found by Mr. Douglas, in California. Ep. 
* See Bot. Register and Bot. Magazine for several of 
E». in quest of seeds and other ia: "o 
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descended the river in an Indian canoe for 
the purpose of prosecuting my researches on 
the coast, a design which was in a great 
measure frustrated, by the tribeamong whom 
Ilived going to war with the nations resid- 
ing to the northward, in that very direction 
which I intended to follow. During my stay 
several persons werekilled and some wound- 
ed in a quarrel. The principal chief in 
the village, Cockqua, treated me with the 
utmost fidelity, and even built me a small 
cabin in his own lodge, but the immense 
number of fleas occasioned me to remove 
to within a few yards ofthe river: still my 
friend was so much interested in my safety 
that he watched himself a whole night, at 
the time when heexpected the war party. In 
the morning about three hundred men in 
their war garments, danced the war dance, 
and sang several death songs, which caused 
in me certainly a most uncomfortable sensa- 
tion, and the following morning brought us 
seventeen canoes, carrying nearly four hun- 
dred men, when after several harangues, it. 
was mutually agreed to suspend hostilities 
for the present. 
A sturgeon was caught by one of my 
companions, which measured twelve feet 
nine inches from the snout to the tip of the 
tail, and seven feet round the thickest part, 
and its weight exceeded five hun 
pounds. Among the plants which I found 
on this occasion were, Lupinus littoralis, 
(Bot. Mag. t.2952.) Carex Menziesu, Jun- 
cus Menziesii and globosus, Vaccinium 
ovatum, parvifolium, (Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 
v. 1. t. 128), and ovalifolium, (Hook. Fl. 
Bor. Am. v. 1. t. 127.). I also obtained 
seeds of the beautiful Spirea ariefola, 
(Bot. Reg. t. 1367.) of Gualtheria Shallon, 
Ribes sanguineum, Berberis and other 
valuable and interesting plants. 
Before taking leave of my Indian friends, 
I purchased several articles of wearing ap- 
parel, things used in their domestic econo- | m ; - 
my, &c, for which I paid in trinkets Ad S 
tobacco. larrived at Fort Vancouver again 
on the 5th of August, and employed my- 
self until the 18th in drying the — I 
had collected, and urneys 
