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(92) Gramineae, perennial ; in low vaUeys ; a strong grass, 3 to 

 4 feet high ; plentiful. Poa sp. ; perennial ; a tall species, plentiful on 

 hilly situations among rocks. 



(93) Carex sp. ; on low damp soils ; a fine specimen ; plentiful. 

 Observed the same species of Onosmodium with white flowers that is found 

 so abundant at the Great Falls and on most of the sandy islands below ; 

 laid in six specimens of the beautiful Pentstemon, being much better ones 

 than those already collected. 



Wednesday, 31 si. — Collected near the Falls : 



(94) Rubus sp. ; leaves three-lobed, serrate; shoots hispid; flowers 

 small, white ; on rocks and dry gravelly soils near rivers. 



(95) Icosandria, Monogynia; flowers white; leaves cordate, partially 

 three-lobed, dentate ; 4 to 6 feet high ; on rocky situations ; plentiful. 

 Rainy throughout. 



Thursday, June 1st. — Made a walk to the hills to the south and found 

 only two which I had not seen before : 



(96) Tetrandria, Monogynia ; calyx four-partite, linear ; petals four, 

 acute, faint blue ; leaves opposite, sessile, linear ; a low perennial plant, 

 a foot to 18 inches ; plentiful on the meadows. 



(97) Syngenesia, perennial ; in fissures of rocks ; leaves pinnate ; 

 flowers brownish-yellow ; has a strong scent like mint ; this plant I saw 

 some days ago, but not in blossom. Warm and pleasant. 



Friday to Sunday, 2nd to the ith. — Employed packing three bundles of 

 dry plants, being all that are in a state fit to be sent to the coast. Two pair 

 of mountain or rock grouse, one pair of curlews, and one small female 

 pheasant. Changing the paper of some in a halt-dry state and arranging 

 my affairs for a journey to the plains below. On Sunday wrote a 

 letter to my brother. I am to-morrow to leave this place by a boat at 

 daybreak. 



June 5th. — Rose at half -past two o'clock and had all my articles 

 given over in charge to Mr. Dease. My tent struck and breakfast before 

 five, when I took my leave, in company with Mr. William Kittson, of the 

 wild romantic scenery of Kettle Falls. We went on horseback two miles 

 from the new establishment, where the boats had been laid up, and em- 

 barked at seven precisely. The river by the melting of the snow is much 

 swollen, fully twelve or fourteen feet where it is sis hundred yards wide ; 

 on getting into the current the boats passed along like an arrow from the 

 bow. Half-an-hour took us to Thomson's Rapids, where, as I observed on 

 my ascent, the water is dashed over shattered rocks, producing an awful 

 agitation of the water from side to side. On being visited by Mr. Pierre 

 L'Etang, the guide, he observed the water was in fine order for jumping the 

 Rapid, as he termed it. Good as it appeared to him, I confessed my timidity 

 prevented me from remaining in the boat. Although I am no coward in 

 the water and have stood unmoved, indeed with pleasure, at the agitation 

 of the ocean raging in the greatest pitch, yet to descend such a place I can 

 never do unless necessity calls for it. Therefore Mr. Kittson and I walked 

 along the rocks. No language can convey an adequate idea of the dexterity 

 shown by the Canadian boatmen : they pass through rapids, whirlpools, 



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