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Show 500 .O.ppcndix. October 3 The earth and sanrl which form the bars of this ri- .Nov. vcr arc so fully impreg-nated with s:1l t, that it shoots and adher-es to the little sticks which appear on the surface; it is pleasant and seems nitrous. 5 Slight white frost last night: geese and brant passing south. 6 Frost last night: saw tccl, mallards and gulls. ~ vVind blew hard this morning; saw some brant and geese passing- to the south. 14 Cotton-wood all yellow, and the leaves begin to fall: abundance of grapes and red berries; the leaves of all the trees as ash, elm, &c. except the cotton-wood, are now fallen. 17 Saw a large flock of white brant with black wings: antelopes are passing to the Black mountains to winter·, as is their custom. 18 Hard frost last night, the clay ncar the water edge was frozen, as was the water· in the vessels exposed to the air·. 19 20 29 3 7 8 9 10 13 No mule-deer seen above the Chayennc river. Much more timber than u~ual: saw the first blttck haws that we have seen for a long time. "I'he wind was so hard, th::tt it was extremely disagreeable: the sand was blown on us in clouds. Wind blew hard all day. A few drops of rain this evening; saw the auroraborealis at 10 P.M.; it was very brilliant in perpendicular columns, frequently changing- position. Since we have bocn at our pr·esent station, the river has fallen 9 inches. Very hard frost this morning. Many geese passing to the south; saw a flock of the crested cherry birds passing· to the south. Large quantity of dr1ft ice running this morning·, the river having appearances of closing- for th ir.. lvinter. Nov. Deer. 1805 fanuary 501 16 liard frost this morning attached to the timber and boughs of the trees. 17 The frost of yesterday remained on the trees until 2 P. l\1. when it descended like a shower of snow; swans passin'b from the north. :20 :29 30 5 7 8 14 15 ~ 4 27 28 3 6 8 .12 Little soft icc this morning; the bout in much danger from ice, &c. The snow fell eight inches deep, it drifted in heaps in the open ground. The Indians pass the river on the ice. Wind blew excessively hard this night from the northwest. Last night the river blocked up opposite fort Mandan. The icc one and a half inches thick on the part that had not previously frozen; the bufTaloe appear. Captain Clark set out with a hunting pat·ty on the icc with sleighs. Snow fell half inch. Snow very inconsiderable. The tre\!s arc all white with the frost which at tached itself to their boughs. It blew very hat·d last night; the frost fell like a shower of snow. The snow is nine inches deep. At 12 o'clock to-day two luminous spots appeared on each side of the sun, extremely bright. The snow is now ten inches deep, accumulating by frosts. Singular appearance of three distin ct lfalos or luminous; rings about the moon appeared thi5 evening at half after nine, P.M. and continued one hou:·; the moon formed the centre of the middle ring, the other two which lay north and south of the moon, and had each of them a limb passing through the moon's centre, and projecting north and south, a scmidiamcter beyond |