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Show CHAPTER XVII VOYAGE FRON MUSCLESIELL RIVER 70 FORT MO KENIE, ¥ROM JULY 28TH 70 Avcust 9 O Gk Gk ceing with some Perans blogin o the Company he Skeletoof the Bear o the P Doga--Linle Rcky Momssn Ran - Bk b,Liand, ot Chas there-The Mauvic Forn i other Rapids-The Bighors . Chase-Thompucn' Crsek,tho Wost Boundary of th Mauvses Teres-Jodith River-Mecing with the Gros Vs des Prerc e Bigher Hirer-Obocrrations o thse Stonomll Crock-Fist Sight of he Rocky Mountins-Bear's-p Mowstio-Mars River-Arrivl and Reccio ¢ For M Kens did not make any long stay at Muscleshell River, for after our hunters, who had mad 1 excursion into the neighbouring wood and prairis, returned,at noon, with a bufflo and a ek, we proceeded on our voyage. Dechamp brought some impressions of shels, which aboun on these bnks of the Missouri. nmm\apmm where the hill, which were seventy or eight ethigh, came close to_the river, we found Mr. Bodmer and Dreidoppel employed in collecting most interesting impressionsof shells, and very beautiful baculites® of the latter of w there were large, very fine, opalescent specimens. The edge of the bank, which two fiet broad, was covered with these fragments, which fall from the higher par The prairie now alternated with woods of tall ,m.mm,. d these trecs, pN\/ bly form, in any partrtofof the globe, such finemu\\o[() fore a thy do here Impresions ofsel and baculites were collected o , the las of which, a painter, who lately travelled on th st o be pet .M serpent Missouri The fin collcio of l e mprsions spteificons sl o s aecason,s, nfrtunsiely,no e o o 0 s o gt o O Gt e o theo DUnived byS. G. Mrion, Pild, 1834 301" Trantacion of th Geolgia Soity of Diital image© 2004 Marriot Libary, University o Utah. Al righs reerved |