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about eight or ten days’ journey with pack horses, and that they 
could descend to it by the river in canoes, but there were too 
Many falls and rapids to admit of its being ascended; that tl 
Flathead River, which I followed up in the mountains, runs to 
the south and joins Clark’s Fork of the Columbia, in which is 
the Flathead Mission, which they described as three days riding 
South of this; that there are large lakes to the northwest of the 
ootanie Post, from one of which a small river flows and ee 
the Kootanie Fork, before it falls into Clark’s Fork. sey 
They also told me that there was a pass entering cot getonl 
