. History of the expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean [microform] : performed during the years 1804-5-6 by order of the government of the United States. Lewis and Clark Expedition; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Botany; Zoology; Botanique; Zoologie; Indians of North America; Indiens d'Amérique. NORTH FORK OF DEARBORN'S RIVER. From this gap Fort mountain is about 30 miles in a north- eastern direction. We now wound through the hills and hollows of the mountains, pass
. History of the expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean [microform] : performed during the years 1804-5-6 by order of the government of the United States. Lewis and Clark Expedition; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Botany; Zoology; Botanique; Zoologie; Indians of North America; Indiens d'Amérique. NORTH FORK OF DEARBORN'S RIVER. From this gap Fort mountain is about 30 miles in a north- eastern direction. We now wound through the hills and hollows of the mountains, passing several rivulets which run to the right, .1:... a. the distance ot nine miles from the gap camped, aiUr n. 32 miles. We procured some beaver, and this morning saw some signs and tracks of buffalo, from which it seems those animals do sometimes penetrate to a short distance within the mountains. July %th. At three miles from our camp we reached a stream" issuing from the mountains to the southwest; though it only contains water for a width of 30 feet, yet its from the Pass, but which on the contrary soon gave out. Even this rivulet is charted on Clark N 150 / Continuing northward Governor Stevens soon f, '! into the trail which passed from Lander's creek to the stream which did flow from the Pass, and of which he was in search. His Report says : " Starting now from the point where the trail from Lander's Fork strikes the stream flowing from Lewis and Clark's Pass, we continued up the latter Mream for hve miles, passing over the remarkable valley that I have ever seen in the immediate region of a mountain divide. [Plate Ixii. represents this valley ] Its width and the declivities of the ground were remarkably uniform ; the not less than half a mile wide ; the bottom-excepting a small portion of the lower part, where were beaver dams-always above the freshets, until we came to a point where I halted for a few moments in order to observe with the b
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