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event occurred which arrested for ever their hopes and exertions, ere they had 
attained the sphere of their researches. It is thus alluded to in a communication 
to the authorities of the Hudson's Bay Company, from, we presume, their resident 
officer at Fort Vancouver, and dated 7th of Novemher, J 838. 
" In my letter of the 4th instant, I mentioned the arrival at this place of Chief 
Trader Tod with a detachment of the York Factory recruits, and noticed the cause which 
had made it necessary for him to leave the bulk of the party behind. 
" A boat which Mr. Tod had sent back from the Upper Columbia Lake left the boat 
encampment on the 22nd of October, with the last of the party. In the evening of the 
same day, when running one of the rapids below Dalles des Morts, the boat unfortunately 
filled, and the following persons perished in attempting to gain the shore. 
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, 
Mr. Banks, 
Botanists. 
Mr. Leblanc and his three children, Keneth M'Donald, ^ 
Fabien Vital, J. Bapt. Laliberte, and two children > In the Company's service. 
of Andre Chalifoux, 3 
In all, twelve persons, who have travelled from their distant homes to find an untimely 
grave beneath the raging waters of the Columbia." 
Within a few days' journey of their destination, in perfect health and excellent 
spirits, these two zealous and qualified individuals were on the point of engaging 
in efforts, which might have entailed immortal honour on their names, and lasting 
benefits on their native land, when they were suddenly consigned to a watery 
sepulchre ; Providence thus defeating the scheme on the very threshold of its 
realization, by a casualty which no human prudence could have foreseen or averted. 
It need scarcely be stated, that on account of the expeditious manner of their 
travel, and the districts through which they passed having been previously rifled 
of their botanical novelties, they had been able to procure nothing worthy of trans- 
mission to Britain. 
When time has in some measure allayed the sorrow and disappointment occasioned 
by this grievous catastrophe, and the affairs connected with the expedition have 
been fully investigated and adjusted, it will remain for decision whether another 
attempt to prosecute the design to which these young men have so haplessly fallen 
victims, shall be hereafter ventured on. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS, FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
JUNE. 
CLASS I.— PLANTS WITH TWO COTYLEDONS (DICOTYLEDONEiE). 
THE CROWFOOT TRIBE (Ranunculacece). 
P^6nia brqwnii. Douglas's Californian Pseony. Possessing more attractions 
for the botanist than the general cultivator, this curious species is yet not altogether 
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