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%vere then sent back, and we continued our marcTi 
alon^ a ridge, where there are rocks, that appear 
to be well calculated for making millstones ; and 
some beautiful tail cedars among the spruce pine. 
Night came on before we got off this ridge, and we 
had much difficulty in finding water. The soil on 
the western side of the mountains appears much 
better than on the east ; and not so rocky. We 
can see the valley ahead, but a great way off. 
Saturday 2\st. The morning was pleasant ; but it 
"Was late before we got our horses collected. About 
10 o'clock we were ready to start ; and passed along^ 
the ridge with a great deal of difficulty and fatigue^ 
our march being much impeded by the fallen timber. 
A great portion of the timber through which we 
passed along this ridge is dead, and a considerable 
part fallen ; and our horses are weak and much jaded. 
One of them got into a small sw^amp, and wet a bale 
of merchandize. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon 
Sve got down the mountain to a creek, which runs 
nearly soul h west. This course we suppose is a very 
good one for us. We went down this creek about a 
mile, and encamped on it for the night in a small rich 
bottom. Here we killed a duck and two or three 
pheasants ; and supped upon them and the last of 
our horse meat. We also killed a wolf and eat it. 
The hunters did not join us this evening, nor the two 
men who went to look for the iiorse. 
Sunday 22?id. This was a fine warm day. About 
9 o'clock we continued our rout over a ridge about a 
west course, upon the top of which tbere is a hand- 
some small prairie ; where we met one of our hun- 
ters wlih a supply of roots, berries and some fish^ 
which he procured from another band of the F'ati iead 
naiion of Indians. Capt dn Clarke and the hunters 
had arrived on the 20th at the encampment or lodges 
of these Indiana which are in a beautifni prairie^ 
about 8 or 9 miles from this place. The roots they 
