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plain. At first view it appeared to be insulated, but 

 was actually connected with an adjoining ridge of 

 inferior elevation. This mountain, resembling a py- 

 ramid, is known to the French and American resi- 

 dents and hunters, by the name of the Mammelle. It 

 was distinctly visible from the hills of the Dardenai, 

 a distance of more than 60 miles over laud. From 

 the same point of view, we could enumerate three 

 principal ranges of mountains tending towards the 

 south-west* 



In several places the schistose strata are almost 

 vertically elevated, so as to present along the margin 

 of the river, a smooth and even wall, occasionally pe- 

 uetrated with zig-zag seams of quartz. At the Ca- 

 dron, three hundred miles from Arkansas, the slate 

 exposes to view impressions of something related to 

 the ramified Alcyonites, but flexuous and spirally 

 grooved, also concave articulations of a species of Or- 



* The mountain, apparently laid down in Pike's map as 

 visible at the distance of three days- journey, is situated about 

 ten miles south of the Illinois bayou, and is a long ridged emi- 

 nence, known to the French by the name of the Magazin 

 mountain, connected with a chain which proceeds to the 

 sources of the Pottoe, the Petit John, Le Fevre's fork, and the 

 Kiamesha of Red river; from hence, without ever touching 

 Red river, the mountains proceed towards the sources of L'eau 

 Bleu, and the Faux Washita, continuing in a direction towards 

 the head springs of Red river, where they probably coalesce 

 with the primitive range. 



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