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The next morning, the 25th, this disa- 
ble business being settled, we started 
at daylight, and continuing our upward 
course during the three next days, reached 
the Walla-wallah Establishment on the 
28th, where I was received with much 
kindness by Mr. S. Black, the person in 
charge.. The whole country between this 
place and the Great Falls is nearly desti- 
of the Columbia in 1826. I trust, however, that my 
August, when, with what I may previously obtain, I 
hope to have a most splendid collection. 
zs JAM € — winter, I have z ty 
Jungermannie, 
jection of birds and other animals. My kno nowledge i is 
somewhat limited in these families, so that I hardly 
dare to pronounce take 
care to secure every thing I can lay my hands upon. 
It would have been in my power to make my way to 
, ^ m M EET. 
the opportunity of Pr such an extensive and inte- 
resting country as lies between; but to overlook the 
species of 
Pinus, the most princely of the genus, pee even 
the grandest specimen of vegetation. It attains the 
enormous height of from one hundred and event " 
two twenty feet, with a ci 
fifty nés and cones from twelve to eighteen ilis 
! I possess one of the latter, measuring one foo 
five inches = and ten — ond ithe rnt 
part, 
titute of usd till near the tp Vial they form 
ey are greatly addicted, produce 
which, I am almost afraid to say, is sugar ; Mss as some 
of it, together with the onmes, will erem reach Euf- 
land it 1 4 *11 
This Pinus abundantly two cien south of 
the Col sabe River, in the country of the Umptqua 
Tribe of Indians, who collect its seeds in autumn and 
stance that I have desc sa above, in the same way 
as is civilized nations do 
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rect figure to be taken of this tree, and also to try 
m success m a bag of its seeds. 
ho make some addition to the genus Phlox, 
and to tee PR. (Bot. Reg. t. 1351.), if it be 
in existence. Of Liliaceous plants I 
onem be a great variety. 
** Y heard of Capt. Franklin's party from Cumber- 
land Lake, ee ee Take, their winter re- 
Dr. Richardson did not write to me, as the 
DOUGLAS’ SUMMER EXCURSIONS 
tute of timber, the largest shrub bei 
garea (Purshia of the Flora 
Americana) tridentata, which we us 
fuel in boiling our little kettle. 
ticed several large species of Artem 
arborea, among them) that were new 
and indeed the whole aspect of vege 
is quite dissimilar from that of the c 
To the South-east, at a distance of 
party who brought me the news only spent a i 
nutes with th I learn there is a Mr. 
that if the natives, to w. 
fectly known, can be credited, del must y» 
west passage. They describe a very large r 
runs parallel with the Mackenzie, and falls into 
people of it wear long bea 
having hanged several of the natives to the ri 
Considerable dependence may be placed 
statements, as Mr. M‘Leod showed me some 
coins, combs, and articles of hardware, 
very different from what can be ob 
British Trading Company. Bat the moste 
oe and which proves the difficulty of t 
g 
obliged to depart for Hudson's Bay. 
to be open after July. In this gentleman 4 
exam de. of what may be done by perseve" 
^s ace of he d en ma x vsti te 
Sea, ec Šilute and Pacific Oce 
an individual alive has gone through do as 
of miseries and hardshi 
* My intention is to endeavour crossing. 
pr C 
> 
al 
nearly reduced to 
of shoes, no ME two shirts, two hà 
silk es Menit leas te, not knowing 
first. 
