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the river at tin- falls is o'(M) feet lower than the former one. and < f decomposed granite. I could not at this season go higher than a few miles above the falls, hut was amply re- paid hy rurshia tride-ntata* (Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. t. 1. t. 58). Hnrtoniti nlhii-nulis i Hot. Keg. t. 1446), Kartonias al~ hinmlis. n. Hot. Mag. t. 2894. Hot. Reg. 1174), and several l'> ntsh muiis, | and seeds of many desirable plants, many of which I secured during this expedition. Karly in the motfning of the 19th of July, I descended tin- river in an Indian canoe for the purpose of prosecut- inir my researches on the coast, a design which was in a great measure frustrated by the tribe among whom I lived going to war with the nations residing to the north- wan 1. in that very direction which I intended to follow. Durinir my stay several persons were killed and some wounded in a quarrel. The principal chief in the village, ('(K-kqua. treated me with the utmost fidelity, and even built me a small cabin in his own lodge, but the immense number of tleas occasioned me to remove to within a few yards of the river; still my friend was so much interested in my safety that lie watched himself a whole night, at the time when he 'Xpected the war party. In the morning about 300 men in their war garments, danced the war dance, and sjuiL' several death songs, which caused in me certainly a nii.st uncomfortable sensation, and the following morning brought ns seventeen canoes, carrying nearly 400 men, when after several harangues, it was mutually agreed to suspend hostilities for the present. A sturgeon was caught hy one of my companions which measured twelve feet nine inches from the snout to the tip of the tail, and seven feet round the thickest part, and its weight exceeded 500 pounds. Among the plants which I found on this occasion were Lit/iinus littnralis (Bot. Mag. t. To thin genus the Orocarpu* of Humboldl and Kunth U very nearly allied, of which a specie* wa afterward* found by Mr. Douglax In California. ED. t8ee Bot. Reg. and Bot. Mag. for Heveral of the**- beautiful genu* Inlrodooed by Mr. Dougla*.