. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . NARRATIVE OF 1853. 155 and on the morning of the 7th Captain McClellan, reached Walla-Walla, where they made theirarrangements to continue down the river. Before, however, I start down the Columbia river I will give the incidents of LieutenantMacfeeleys return trip to the Dalles. Crossing by the route of the southern Nez Perces trail, Lieutenant Macfeeley, for eight days,continued climbing mountain after mountain, the difficulties increa
. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . NARRATIVE OF 1853. 155 and on the morning of the 7th Captain McClellan, reached Walla-Walla, where they made theirarrangements to continue down the river. Before, however, I start down the Columbia river I will give the incidents of LieutenantMacfeeleys return trip to the Dalles. Crossing by the route of the southern Nez Perces trail, Lieutenant Macfeeley, for eight days,continued climbing mountain after mountain, the difficulties increasing as he proceeded; themountains seemed to have no dividing ridge, but are an immense mass, broken into conicalpeaks and lateral spurs, and all thrown together and piled one upon another in wildest the summit of two of the mountains he found snow to the depth of three or four inches, andit was still snowing there, while in descending into the valley it changed into sleet and was between the 7th and 15th of September. One of the soldiers with him lost the track in the snow, and was left behind, after two dayssearch, but finally
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