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Show .2141 Lewis and Clarkc"s Expedition of the eal'th, which it covers very closely, lllltting out l'oots ft•om the under side. The fruit and smell resemble those of the common red cedar, but the leaf is finer and more delicate. The tO})S of the hjJls whet•e these plants grow have a soil quite diffet·ent from that just described, t1te basis of it is usually yellow or white clay, and the general appearance light coloured, sandy, and barr·en, some scattering tufts of sedge being almost its only herbage. About five in the afternoon one of our men who had been afilicted with biles, and suffered to walk on shol'c, came l'unning to the boats with loud cries and every symptom of terror and distress: for some time after we had taken him on board he was so much out of lweath as to be unable to describe the cause of his anxiety, but he at length told us that about a mile and a half below he had shot a brown bear which immediately tut•ned and was in close pm·suit of him· but the bear being badly wounded could not overtake hiU:. C.aptain Lew~s with seYen men immediately went in search of him, an? havtng found his track followed him by the blood for a m1lc, and found him concealed in some thick brusb": ood, and shot him with two balls through the skull. 'I .hough somewhat smaller than that killed a few days ago, he was a monstrous animal aud a most terrible enemy:· our man had shot ~lim th~·ough the centre of the lungs, yet be had pursued hun furwusly for lial{' .,. Jn·l tl t d '" 1 e, teu re urne more th~n twice that distance, and with his talons had pre· pared himself a bed in the earth two feet deep and five feet long, aud was perfeet1y alive when they found him which was at least two hours after he received the wound. 'l:he wonderful power of life which these animals possess render them dreadful: their vci·y track in the mud or sand which we have so.m etimes found elcven I· nc1 t es 1o ng and seve' n and a quarter 'nde, exclusive of the tal ons, 1· s a 1a rmm. g; and we had rather encounter two Indian th . Th . s an meet a smgle brown bear. ere IS no chance of k ·1r h J Ing t em by a single shot unless the ball goes through the brains, and this is very difficult Up the ~1lissom·i. .215 on account of two large muscles which cover the side of the forehead, and the slmrp projection of the centre of the frontal bone, which is also thick. Our encampment was on the south at the distance of sixteen miles from that of last night: the fleece aud skin or the bear were a heavy burden for two men, and the oil amounted to eight gallons. Sunday, 12th. r.rhe weather being clear and calm, we set out early. Within a mile we came to a small creek, about twenty yards wide, emptying itself on the south. At eleven and three quarter miles we reached a point of woodland on the south, opposite to which is a creek of the same width as the last, hut with little water, which we called Pine creek. At eighteen and three quarter miles we came to on the south opposite to the lower }Wint of a willow island, situated in a deep bend of the river to the southeast: 1wre we remained during the day, the wind having risen at twelve so high that we could not proceed: it continued to blow violently all night, with occasional sprinklings of rain from sunset till midnight. On both sides of the 1·iver the country is rough and broken, the low grounds bc<\oming narrower; the tops of the hills on the north exhibits some scatte1•ed pine and cedar, on the south tbc pine Las not yet commenced, though there is some cedar on the sides of the hills and in the little ravines. The chokecherry, the wild hysop, sage, fleshy-leafed thorn, and }JarticularJy the aromatic herb on which the antelope and hare feed, arc to be found on the plains and hiHs. 'l'he soH of the hjJls Jws now altered its texture considerably: their bases, like that of tJw rjvcr plains, is as usual a rich, black loam, while fJ·om the middle to the summits they arc composed of a light brown-coloured earth, poor and sterile, and intermixed with a coal'!iC white sand. Monday, 13th. The wind was so strong that we could not proceed till about one o'clock, when we had to encounter a current rather stronger than usual. In tlte course of a. mile and a half we passed two small creek~ on the south, |