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Show • Lewis and Cltwke's E~~pedition •orne stream about two hund1·cd yards wide, apparently deep, with a gentle current; its watPt's clear, and its banks, which were fot•med principally of .das·k br·own and blue clay. are about the same height as those of the Missouri, that is from three to five feet. 'Vhat was singular was that the rivet· does not seem to overflow its banks a.t a.ny season, while it might be presumed from its vicinity to the mountains, that tlJe torrents arising from the melting of the snows, would sometimes cause it to swell beyond Hs limits. The contrary fact would induce a belief that the Rocky mountains yield thci1· snows very reluctantly and equably to the sun, and are not often drenched by very heavy rains. This river is no doubt that which the Indians call Medicine river, which they men~ tioned as emptying into the Missouri, just above tbe falh. After examining Medicine river, captain Lewis set out at half after six o'clock in the en·ning on his return towards the camp, which he estimated at the distance of twelve miles. In going through the low grounds on Medicine river he met an animal which at a distance he thought was a wolf, but on coming within sixty paces, it proved to be some brownish yellow animal standing near its burs·ow, which, when he came nigh, crouched and seeme£1 as if about to spring on him. Captain Lewis iired and the beast disappeared in its burrow. From the track and the general appearanr.e of' the animal be supposed it to be of the tiger kind. lie then went on, but as if the beasts of the forests bad conspit·ed against him, three buifaloe bulls which were feeding with a large her·d at the distance of half a mile, left theil· companion. and ran at full speed towards him. He turned round, and unwilling to give up the field advanced towards them: when they came within a hundred yardst they stopped, looked at him for some time, and then retreated as they came. He no'l pursued his route in the dark, reflecting on the str·angc adven~ turesand sights ofthedaywhich crowded on his mind so rapid~ ly that he should have been inclined to believe it all enchantment if the thorns of the prickly pear piercing his feet did not , Up t1Le JJiissouri. dispel at every moment the illusion. He at last reached the party, who had been very anxious for his safety, and who bad already decide(l on the route whi<'h each should take in the morning to look for him. Being much fatigued he sup· ped and slept well during the night. Satm•(lay, 1.5. 'l,hc men were again iCnt out to bring in the game killed ycstcrday and to vrocure more: they also obtained a number of fine tt·out and several lima1l catfish weighing about four pounc.ls, and differing from the white eatfi~h lower down the ~fissonri. On awaking this morning captain Lewis found a large rattlesnake coiled on the tl'unk of a tree under whieh he had bern sleeping. He killed it, and found it like those we had scrn befor·e, diffet•ing fl·om those of the Atlantic states, not in its colours but in the form and arrangement of them; it had ouc hunclrcd and seventysix scuta on the abdomen, and seventeen half-fot·med scuta on the tail. r-rhere is a heavy dew on the grass about the camp every morning, which no doubt pa·occeds fr·om the mist of tllf~ falls, as it takes place no where in the 11lains nut• on the river except here. 'rhe messenger sent to captain Clarke returne() with information of his having arrived :five miles below at a rapid, which he did not think it prudent to ascend and would wait till captain Lewis and his par·ty I'ejoined him. On Tuesday H th, the day when captain Lewis left ns, we remained at the entrance ofMat·ia's river and corn1>Ieted the deposits of all the articles with which we could di~pen!te. The mot·ning had been fair with a high wind f1•om the southwest, which shifted in the evening to northwest, when the weather became cold and the wind high. The next morning, Wednesday, 12, we left out• encampment with a fair tlay and a southwest wind. r:t,hc river was now so crowded wHh islands that within the distance of ten miles and a hal r we passed eleven of different dimensions before reaching a higb black bluff in a bend on the left, where we saw a great number of swallows. Within one JBilc and a half fu1·tber we |