an hour; and it is only surprising that twice as many 
should not be caught. The river at the falls is three 
hundred and fifty yards wide, and its greatest fall 
twenty-five feet. When the water is not very high, the 
rapids begin some distance above the falls. Some of the TI 
Indians are in the habit of coming down in canoes to the 
brink of the falls, where they secure themselves by thrust- 
ing down poles in the crevices of the rocks. There they 
take many fish, that have succeeded in passing the lower 
fall, with a hook fastened to the end of e pole. These are 
esteemed to be of the best flavour, as they are the strong- 
est end fattest. Tt is said from these places the fish can 
be seen very distinctly passing up, and are taken very rapid- 
ly; but few Indians are willing or expose themselves to the 
risk of fishing there. The number of Indians at the Willamette 
Falls during the fishing season is about seventy, including 
all ages and sexes: there are others who visit the falls in 
canoes for fish, which at times will raise the number to not 
far from one hundred. Those fish which are unable to get up, 
remain some time at the falls, very much exheusted, and final- 
ly resort to the smaller streams below.” Further on he seys 
"it may be classed as one of the greay sourses of wealth, 
for it affords a large amount of food at a very low price, 
and of the very best quality: it does not extend ebove the 
falls. I found it impossible to obtain any data to found a 
calculetion of the quantity taken, but it cannot be short 
