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Show • S.20 L ewis aml Clal'he·s .E..~pc cltl wn us, and joined wiW the labour of working the canoes have fatigued us all excessively. Captain Clar·ke continued along tlte Indian t·oad which led him up a cr~cl(. Ahout ten o·clock he sa.w at the distance of six miles a h orse fr eding in the plain!!. lie "et t cowards him, but the animal was so wild that he could not get within seYeral hundJ•etl pact'S of him: . he then turned ohli(jHelJ to the t·iver whet•e he killrd a clec1• and dined, having passed in this valley five handsome streams, ouly one of wlti<·h had any timher; anojhrr had somf' willows, and \Yas Yery much dammed up by the bcM·cr. After dinner he continued his t•outc a long the river and eneauavcd at the di stan<~e of thirty miles. As he went along he saw many tracks of Indians, but none of recent date. The uext morning, rrhur·sday, 25, at the di stance of a few miles ho arrived at the three forks of the Missouri. Ilerc he found that the plains had IJeen recently burnt on the north side, and ~a'r the track of a horse which seemed to have passed about four or five days since. After bt·eakfast he examined the river·s, and finding that the not·th bram•h, although not largct·, contained more water than the middle branch, and bo1·e more to the westward. he dctcr·mincd to a scend it. He thm·efore left a note inrorming calltain Lewis of his intention, and then went Ull that stream on the north side for about twenty-five miles. H el'e ChaiJoncau was unaiJie to pr·oceed any further, and the party therefore encamped, all of tbcm much fatigued, their feet blistered and wounded by the prickly pear. In tiw meantime we left our camp, and proceeded ou very welJ, though the water is still l'ai>id and has some occasional ripples. The country is much like that of yesterday: thct·e at·e however fewer islands, for we passed only two. Behind one of them is a large creek twenty-five yards wide, to which we gave the name of Gass's creek, from one of our seljeants, Patrick Ga.ss: it is fot·med by the union of five streams, which descend f1·om the mountains and join iu Up the .7Jlissom•i. S21 ~he plain ncar the river. On this island we saw a lat·ge brown bear. !Jut he L'ch·e~l.trd to the shore and ran off before we could app1.·oach him. rrhese animals seem more shy than they wet·c below the mountains. 'rhe antelopes have ,tgain collected in sma ll herds, composed of several females with theh· young, attende<l by onc or two males, though some of the males aJ'c still solitary or wander in partic" or. two over the plains, which the antelope invariably pre· fers to the woodlands, and to which it always rdrcats if b) accident it is found stt>aggling in the hills, confiding no doubt in its wonderful fleetness. )Vo also killed a few young gccst>, but as this game is small and Ycr·y incompe tent to the subsistence of the party, we have forbidden the men any longer to waste thcil' ammunition on them. About four and a half miles above Gass's cl'ccl<, the valley in which we have been travelling ceases, the high craggy cliffs ::1gain approach tbe river, which now enters OL' t•ather leaves what appears to bo a second great chain of the Rocky mountains. About a mile after entering these h ills Ot' low mountains we passed a number of fine bold spt•ings, which but•st out near the edge of tho t·ivcr under the cliffs on the left, an<l furni shed a fine freestone wate t·: ncar these we met with two of the wot•st rapids we have seen since enteri ng the mountains; a t•idge of sharp pointed r ock s str etching across the river, leaving but small and dangerous channels for the navigation. 'fhe clifl's are of a lighter colour than those we han~ ah·cady passed, and in the bed or the river i s some limestone which is small and worn smooth, and seems to have been brought down by the current. ' Vc went about a mile further and encamped under a high bluff on the right opposite to a cliff of rocks, having macle sixteen miles. All these cliffs appeared to have IJeen undermined by the water at some p&riod, and fallen down from the hills on their sides, the stratas of rock sometimes lying with their edges upwards, others not detached from the hills at•e VoL. J . T t |