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Show Lewis and Clarke's Expedition lofty. The only game which we have set>n are one bighoru, a few antelopes, deer, and one brown bear, which escaped from our pursuit. Nothing was, howeYer, killed to-day, nor haye we had any fresh meat except one beaver for the last two days, so that we are now reduced to an unusual situation, for we haYe hitherto always had a great abundance of flesh. Thursday, August 1. We left our encampment early, and at the distance of a mile, reached a point of rocks on the left side, where the river passes tltough pe1•pendicu1ar cliffs. Two and three quat·ter miles further we halted for break~ fast under a cedar tree in a bend to the right: here as had been previou.sly arranged, captain Lewis left us, with sergeant Gass, Chaboneau, and Drewyer, intending to go on in advance in search of the Shoshonccs. lie began his J•outc along the north side of the river over a high range of moun· tains, as captain Clarke who ascended them on the 26th bad obseJ'ved from them a large valley spreading to tl1e north of west, and concluded that on leaving the mountain the rive1• took that direction; but w11Cn he reached that valley, captain Lewis found it to be the passage of a large creek falling just above the mountain into the. Jefferson, whicb bears to the southwest. On discovering his error, he ocnt his course towards that riYcr, '"hich he reached ~oout two in the afternoon, very much exhau!tccl with beat and thirst. The mountains were ve1·y bare of timber, and the rout~ lay along the steep and narro'" hollows of the mountain, expo• sed to the mid-day sun, without air, or shade, or water. Just as he anived there a flock of elk passed, and they killed two of them, on whieh they made their dinner, and left the rest on the shore for the party in the canoes. After dinner they resumed their march, ami encamped on the north side of the l'iver, after making seventeen miles; in crossing tl1e mountains captain Lewis saw a floc]{ of the black or dark brown pheasant, of which he killed one. r.rbis bird is one third larger than the common pbt~asant of the Atlantic States; Up the Missouri. SS& its form is much the same. The male has not however the tufts of long black feathers on the sides of the nrck so consllicuous in the Atlantic l)bcasant, and both sexes are booted nearly to the tors. The colour is a uniform dark brown with a small mixture of yellow or yellowish brown specks ou some of the feathers, particularly those of the tail, though the extremities of these are perfectly black for about an inch. rrhe eye is nearly black, and the il·is has· a small dash of ycHowish brown; the feathers of the tail are somewhat longer than those of our plu~asant, but the same in number, eighteen, and nearly equal in size. except that those of the middle arc so mew hat the longest; tbeil' flesh is white and agreeably flavoured. lie also saw among the scattered pine near the top of the mountain, a blue bird about the size of a robin, but in action and form something like a jay; it is constantly in motion, hopping from spray to spray, and its note whiclds loud and frequent, is, as far as letters can represent it, char ah! cha1· ah! char ah! After breakfast. we pt•ocecded on: at the tlistanoe of two and a quarter miles the river enter! a high mountain, which forms rugged cliffs of nearly perpendicular rocks. These are of a black granite at the lower part, and the upper consists of a light coloured freestone; they continue from the point of rocks close to the river fot• nine miles, which we passed before breakfast, dur·ing which the current is very strong. At nine and a quarter miles we passed an island, and a rapitl with a fall of six feet, and reached the entrance of a large ct•eck on the left side. ln passing this place the towline of one of the canoes bt•ol\.e just at tlw shoot of the rapids, swuug on the rocks and had nearly upset. To the Cl'eek as well as the rapid we gave the name of Frazier, after Rober li"razier one of the pat·ty: hct·c the country opens into a IJeautiful valley fr·om six to eight miles in width: the river then becomes crooked and crowded with islands; its lowgrot.Uldi wide and fertile, but though covered with line |