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Show JO 1-'ewis awl Cla •·l~e' s Expedit·ion mediately IJehiml thr village is a pond, in which were great .. numbers of small swan. 'Vcdncsday, so. A mode1·atc t•ain fell dus·ing all last night, but the ruoruing was cool, anti aftc1· taking a Sl'anty breakfast of deer. we }ll'Occeded. The riv 'l' is now about tlu·-.·e qua1·tet·s of a mile wide, with a cm'rcnt so gent.lt'. that it does not exceed ouc mile and a half an hour; but its coul'sc is obstructed by the projection oflargt· roel(s," hit'h seemed to have fallen promis<•uously from the mountains into the bed of the river. On the left side four difft·a·ent -;U'<.'ams ol '''<\t.CJ' empty themselves in cas<·adrs l's·om the hilb: what is, however. most singular is, that there as·c slumps of pine trees scattered to some distan<•(' in the a·iver, which has the appcat·ance of lwing dammed helow and forct•d to t•ncroach on tl.lc :shore: thc!SC ob~ta·uctions continue till at the tlish\ncc of twelve mile:;. ,\'hen we <"ame to the mouth of a river 01 the right, where we Jnr~dt·cl: we found it si ·ty y!u·ds wide, and its banks possess two kinds of timbe•· which we had not hitherto seen: one is a vct·y lat'!;C . pecie · of ash; the othet· •·esemiJling in its bark the beach; hut the tr'cc its<·H~ as also the leaves, arc smaller. \Vc called this sta·eam ~rusatte's rivet·. after Cl·usattc, ono of out· meu: op}lositc to ib mouth the Columbia widens to the <listancc of a mile, witb a la,·g sanduar, and la•·gc stones arul rocks scaHercd through the d.anncl. We here saw sovea·al o1' the huge butzards, Wllich at•c of the size of the hu•gest eagle, witlJ tbc undc•· }lat't of their wings white: we also shot a deer and thsTc duck;; on 1mrt of which we dined, and then continued down the Co1um1Jhl. AboYC Crusatte's l'ive•· the low gt'ouruls art' about tht·rc qua.t·tca·s or a mile wide, rising gs·adually to the hills, and "ith a rich soil covt~rc<l with gra . , fcs·n, and other small undel'gs·owth; but below, the couutt·y rises with a stPep ascent, and !';oou tile mountains ap}H'Oach to tlJe river 'With ~ll~Cll rugg~d sides, covered with a. vel'y thick gt·owth oi' \)iue, cedar. cottonwood, and oak. 'l'he a·ivet· iH still strewed with large rocks. 'l~wo and a half miles below Up t11e JJfissou1'i. 61 (t)rusaUe's river is a large creek on tl1e right, with a small island in the mouth. Just below this cr·eek we passed along the right side of tht•ee small islands on the l'ight bank of the a-ive•·, with a larger island on the opposite side. and landed on an islaml very ncar the right shoa·e at the head or tlac groat shoot, and opposite two smaller islands at the fall ot· slwot itself. .Just above the island on w hicb we wct·e encamped is a small village of eight large houses in a b('nd on lhc right, where the country, from having been ''<'I'Y mountaiuous, becomes low for a short disUtnee. 'Ve bacl made iiftrcn macs to-day, during all which time we WCI'(' k•·pt c·onstantly wet with the a·ain; but as we WCI't' able to get 011 this i::,[and bOtne Of the ash which WO S:\W fOI ' the first time to-dayt and whjch mal{CS a toh·rablc lire. we w<'rc as t·omfol'tablc as the moistness of tht~ evrning would l>ea·mit. As soon a~ we landed, capt.nin I .. cwis went with five m<'n to the vlllagc, which is situated n<·al~ the 1·ivcr, with ponds in the low g••otands behind: the grcatet• part of the inhabi~ tants "ere absent t·oll('cting l'Oots down tlw l'iver: tht~ f'<'W, however, who WN'C at honH', treated him ve•·y 1\indly. and .,~we him l.J('JTies, nut. ~ and fish; and in the hou:,e were a gun and several artitl<'s which must have been lll'ocured fs·om the whites; but not bring able to procure a.ny inl'onna· fion, he rclu•·ne<l to the island. (;aptain t:lal'l\.c had in the meantime gone down to examinr the shoot, and to di~:WOV<.'l' the brst route fot· a por·t.age. He followed an Indian path~ which, at the distance of a mil ~ , led to a village on an clev~~< ·<l :ituation, the houses or whit·h had uceu largt.>, but uudt Ul a. ditfc\'COt for·m fl'Olll any we had Jet seen, but which had been lately ahamlotJcd, the >;l'Nttcr· pat·l ol' the bo:u·ds lwing IHtt into a pond m·at· tltc villa•,.t': this was most l.l l'o.lJ a.hJy for the puqtosc of th·ownin•" the Hcas, which "ca·e ::, 10 Jmmensc quantities ucal' the lwuses. After going at,out three miles the ni~ht obligetl him to return to cauap~ he r~ ·umcd his scarrh in the moruiu!4'• |