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BALD EAGLE 



a little to the picturesque effect of the magnificent scenery at the 

 Falls of the Missouri : 



" Just below the upper pitch is a little island in the middle 

 of the river, well covered with timber. Here on a cottonwood 

 tree an Eagle had fixed its nest, and seemed the undisputed mis- 

 tress of a spot, to contest whose dominion neither man nor beast 

 would venture across the gulfs that surround it, and which is fur- 

 ther secured by the mist rising from the falls/^"^ 



The Bald Eagle was observed by Lewis and Clark during 

 their whole route to the Pacific Ocean. 



Hist, of the Exped. vol. i, p. 26 i. 



