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dence here the population has increased from all sources fully 100. 

 Five marriages have been solemnized during the past year. 



(i Several new houses were finished last fall, and there are six 

 more now in frame, and the material got out for three or four 

 others, which are to be raised when the boating is over. A larger 

 quantity of ground is fenced in and under cultivation than has 

 ever been before ; so that if their prosperity does not keep pace 

 with our wishes, yet we have every reason to thank Grod and take 

 courage. In fact, there seems a general desire among our people 

 to improve their circumstances." 



OXFORD HOUSE. 



Rev. Charles Stringfellow, of Jackson's Bay. 

 " As to the numbers in our Church there is a decrease of six- 

 teen, being last year ninety-nine, the present year they number 

 eighty-three. There are eighteen persons on trial for member- 

 ship in addition to the eighty-three members. Of this decrease 

 ten have removed to hunting-grounds contiguous to Eossville 

 Mission, and therefore will augment by ten the numbers there 

 in society. Five other persons, four male and one female, have 

 died during the year." 



EDMONTON AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 



Rev. Thos. Wolsey. 

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VII. 



THE FAR WEST IN THE UNITED STATES. 



From its mouth to the Great Bend, the Missouri admits 

 of almost continuous settlement on its immediate banks ; 

 thence, to Fort Union, only about one-fourth could be culti- 

 vated; and above Fort Union many extensive but detached 

 bottoms show their adaptation for small independent agricul- 

 tural areas. 



The general westward progress of settlement a few miles 

 west of the Upper Missouri River, is rendered impossible by 



