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"Establishment on the Oakanagan River, 
one of the Northern branches of the Co- 
lumbia, where we were kindly received by 
the Factor, Mr. Annance, but the ground 
being covered three or four feet deep with 
snow, nothing could be done in the way of 
Botany, and my attempts to secure speci- 
mens of the Wild Grouse of the country 
were also unsuccessful I observed a 
beautiful yellow Lichen growing on the 
dead brushwood. 
April 9th. My companions and I resumed 
our route early this morning, sometimes 
walking and sometimes on horseback 
where the portages were very long and 
rugged, and on Tuesday, the 11th, arrived 
at the junction of the Spokan River with 
the Columbia, where we found John W. 
Dease, Esq., who, with fourteen men, was 
on his way to the Kettle Falls, ninety miles 
higher up the Columbia, the furthest of 
the three points, which I designed to make 
my head-quarters for the summer and au- 
tumn. The great kindness and attention 
this gentleman showed me contributed no 
little to my comfort. He is brother to the 
person of the same name who is now ac- 
companying Capt. Franklin on his second 
Arctic Land Expedition. 
This part of the Columbia is by far the 
most beautiful and varied I have yet seen ; 
ripe seeds. [Here follow the details, which are pre- 
cisely similar to what Mr. D. had mentioned in his 
erits shade? As 
for Mr. Lambert, I hardly think he could eat at all, 
if he saw it. 
country lying towards the head-waters of the Colum- 
bia River, I could not think of forsaking such an in- 
viting field, or departing so far from the interests of 
the Society by which I am employed. I expect to 
reach the mountains in August. How glad I shall be 
tojoin you in our usual trip of Ben Lomond, where 
we shall have more time and a keener relish for talk- 
ing over our journeys in North-West A 
MID, 1a: +n PL ^. D: 
in the interior 
. 
Pardon the shortness of this note, as I have neither 
time nor conveniences for writing—no table nor desk : 
t x a Al. £P t A u 
- bis is p p y SE oard, under 
~ Which are some exceedingly interesting things,” 
DOUGLAS’ SUMMER EXCURSIONS 
the plains are extensive, but stu 
Pine-trees, like an English lawn, 
ing bluffs or little eminences cloth 
small brushwood and rugged rocks s 
kled with Ferns, Mosses, and Lichen 
Two or three days were here dev 
drying my paper, which had got we 
ranging my plants, and writing to Mr. 
bine, my brother, and Mr. Munro, 
notes I delivered to Mr. M‘Leod, who 
to-morrow, the 14th, for his long tr 
Hudson's Bay, and has most kindly 
gaged to convey my tin box of se 
a few other articles which he will 
to Mr. M'Tavish. I also met Mr. 
Wark here, from whom I received | 
attention last year. In a few days Ii 
proceeding to the Kettle Falls, 
shall make such a stay and such excur 
as best promise to accomplish the o 
of my employers. 
Among the most interesting plants} 
I have just gathered, is one 0 a 
perfectly distinct from Lilium (though à 
parently the L. pudicum of Pursh), 
style is invariably three-cleft. It is: 
dant in light dry soil, every where $e 
the Falls. I shall try to preserve its DU 
as it is highly ornamental. The 2 
eat the roots both raw and roasted et: 
lay by for winter use. 
theon is also plentiful here, gt” 
a white variety: when these pre 
are seen together, they lend a 
scanty herbage of American Spr 
agreeably recalls to mind “ the wee 
son-tipped flower," and “ the faint 
rose-beds" of my native land. 
From Sunday the 15th to 
the 19th, I continued making Se" 
in the country contiguous to the 
of the Spokan River, and this mo 
sake of viewing the general asp?" 
soil, and estimating its future pre 
than for any object of Natural 
I might now pick up, the season 
early in spring to afford much. 
Wednesday the 19th. n 
noon, I accompanied Mr. Dease, 
