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Show Lewis aml fJla1·kc's Expeditwn Thursday, Sfst, through the rain. At the cxtrt>nlit.y of the basin. in which is situated the island wht•re 'vt~ al'e encamped, several rocks an<l l'Ocky islands arc inhwspct·scd through the bed of the l'ivcr. The rocks on c;wh sitlt~ have fallen down from Ou· mountains; thal on the ld't being high, and on the right the hill itsdr, which is lowc•·, slii»Ping into the t·ivm·; so that the CU1'1'cnt is here comJn·essctl 'v itltin a sp~tcc of one hundred and fifty ya.·ds. Within thi!:! narrow limit it •·uns for the di lance of &'our humhcd yat·ds with gt·cat ra(tidity. swelling over the t•ocks with a fall of about tw(mty feet: it then widen!:! to two hnndt·ed }laces, and the ~ur•·ent foa· a shot·t distnnet' hc,•ome!:! gentle; but at tbe distance of a mile and a half', and oplJusitc to tho old village mentioned yc~;tcrday, it i!:l ohstructt~d by "· vca·y bad raJJid, 'lvhere Uw waves an.l unusually higls. the 1·iver being ~on:: flned between lal'gc •·oeks. many of which arc ai the sud~t~e of the water. Captain Clarke p•·occcded along the same path Jw had taken before, which led him through a thicl woorl and along a hill side, till two and a h:tH' miles below the shoots, he stt·uck the dvcr at the (llace whence the In· dians make their l)ortagc to the head of the shoot: he here sent Crusatll', the tn·incipal waterman, up the stream, to examine if it were pt·acticaiJlc to LH'ing the canoes down the \Vater. ln the meautinu.~, hr, with Josc1Jh Fields, continued lais route down the t·ivca·, along which the rapids seem to stretch as far as be could sec. At half a mile below the end of' the t»>rtagt·. he came to a bouse, the only remnant of a town, which, fa·om its appcaranec, must han' been of ga·cat antiquity. 'l'hc house was uninhabited, and bciug old and decayed, he l'clt no disposition to encounter the Jkas, 'vhich abound in evc•·y situation of that kind, and therefore did not cntct·. About half a mile below this house, in a. very thick pat·t of the woods, is an ancient bUI·ialtllace: it consists of t•ight vaults made of pine or cedal' boards closely conner-ted. about eight feet square am) six in hcjgltt; the top secured, covered with wide boards sloping a little, so as S lt 't ll." utul / ,rlund,'f . I In '!I /1 11 I :lu I 11111 " In , ld I .tt •"fi' |