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Show 110 JOURNAL. Captain Lc·\vis's camp , ~t a v_ery rapid plac~ ~f tbe river, and took breakfas t. VVe had here to J Olll ~he cre\\S of two canot!s tog-ethe r, to go ~p th e. raptd~ ,, hich we:·c about half a 1nilc long·. 1 he lYIL_s-;oun a t t lI .>J IJh, ce is vct·Jv narrow• . At the hea•d l of the. se l'apicls a fine spting comes m ?n t~1 e so nth SI_C e, wInch rises about a qu·1 rter of a mile {rom the n :·er; and 11 a s a 0o -ood deal of smt\ll cotton-wood and \nllows on jts banks. Tlle re is al so another spn. ng b t 1o w t Iw ral;ic!s, but it sinks before it reach~s the river. " . e p roceeded on through the mOt~ntams, a ' 'cry desnt looking J;art of the country. Some of the knobs Ol' p eaks ._of these mountuins are 700 (perhaps some n early I ~00) fe et hi gil, all rock ; and tho:1g·h tl1ey al'e u'lmost perpu1dicul ar, we saw mountam sheep on the rery toptt of them, vV e saw few ?lbe~· atumals to clay. The g eneral breadth of the nver Is 100 yards. ' Ye went ll miles and encamped in a small bottom on t be n orth side. , T hunJClay 18t!t. 'f Le morning was fair· and we proceeded on early: passed Clear·wat er river on the llOl'lh side ~:tbou~ 50 yards wicle, rapid and shallow. Th..:re are a g reat quantity of currants all along the ri,·er on bolh sides in the small bottoms. At breakfast time CP.pt.tin CJarke with th r<?c men went on a] 1eacl. 1\ l~ou t ll we got through the higher part of the mom.t~iins, and to whe1·e there is less timbtr ~tlld th ' rocks cut so larg e. In the forenoon we passed two ::.an:Jl c:·eci(s on the not·th side, cmd in tbt afternoon a SP1<d i river on the s ame side; abore the mouth of which , ,·e got a deer skin, that Captain Clarke's man had h un :~· up. The country cuntil!UCS much the ~nm e. ''' c made 20 miles this day. F, ida'! i 9/lt. A fine moen in g. At 9 we came trt higi1 parts of the H1ot:nlain s, which had a good deal of pint:, ~r>ruce unci cedar on them, and \vhere there were not su many rock s ; but no timber in the bot· toms excq>t some small willows. About l o'clock JOUHNAL. 1 1 'I' we h ~H.l thunder, li g htening and rai:1, w11ich con tinued an hour or two, and th en the \Yca!her hecamt clear. This afternoon we P~ s 'Cll p .t l'[') or the moun tains, th ~ t we re very ·hi2;h , and n vJstly of so!id rock of a lig-ht colo m·. T he mountain:-; are ~r> dos-::! on the t•i ver on both side that we scarct!y could find room to encamp. 'VC.\Ycnt .'i; mil c.::s a:sd eac~mp "' cl Oll the south ~icl e . After ni :;ht some r:.in r~·l l. Saturday 20th. \ V e h2.cl a fiile mors1ing·, and emh: l rk ecl early. A bou t 8 we got out of t ~H~ high part of t!Jc mountnins, and c. n. \! to '"here t~1ey arc lo"·cl' ancl not so rock y ; a nd wh ere thn\:! ~r~ the finest cutT an t ~ I c·1er saw· of dilierent l : inc~"' r d, yellow ~in d black: the b bc!~ a r~ the must p!t<tSa!lt and p. bt, lbk. Th c r~ i ~ nlc;o a g-ood ptJrtioa ur timbct· on the n to untains all ~ l ollg Ll:is p .. u·t. \ ,-e killed an elk. in out· wny, and found th~.: ~kin o f or.e which Cai)t·li.l Clal'kc had left on the b:mk with a tVitc, i.1forminl-; us he would p ~s<; the mountain he was then on, and wait for the c u tlf)CS. \ V c p:1ssed a smrdl Cl' :.!e!: on the south ~ id e , and nbout 2 o'clock cam~ to :1 Icv2 l p lain on the nol' th sick, from '"" l1 ic h we saw•~ Gti'Cin~~ smoke r i5ing·, and s11pposed it was from a fire 1n .. 1rk l)y Cupt. Cl.1.!'l~c . 'f hc 1 ~ve l' 1s ,·cry crot.k ~d in f;(.!l1~1'<l.l, and h c~·e is; a t:; re~t bend to the s~Juth:'\St ; ;:;.nd iil the afternoon it turned so f1r t::at our co"Jrs~ w.1s norti1 of cn5t. 'Ve p rocccch.!d on thtough a Y~lJl~y bet'.vcen t \\'0 rr.onnt:\in:-:, o ne ( r whic h we passed , and the other is in ,·icw ~h e ad . \Ve wc;n t 15 mi: ~ 3 ancl cnC< ltnpccl at the n:o\tth of a srnali nm u:1 t h-.: soutt1 r.ide. Sunday ~ l .st. 'V e set out at stn rh ~ ancl h«cl ~ pl e8s~:nt mur nin~ ; passed some middlin; hif~b hi lls tJn the l'i·:er, nncl r0cks of a red purple colour ; t~ho t \ \ O sm,1l1 creeks one o:1 each side. Thcr-.: ~re a fe\·r pin· i 011 t h r~ hills. ..At noon om· cou1 sc beg:m to c h~tnge more to tl:e south w~st ar,-a in ; t:1e win:l hi(!'.; Vcl'y b ~ rd and so·me drop<> o f r~in Cell. I11 the ~fter- |