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Hut to iVtuni from tliis digression: I axJiin sot |V mi tin- l!Mh for the purpose of ascending the Ixiver Multnomak, one of the southern tributaries of the Columbia. This is

i very tine stream, with remarkably fertile banks; thirty-

six miles above the junction with the Columbia are falls of forty-three feet perpendicular! height, over which the whole breadth of the river is precipitated, forming one unbroken sheet 'at this season of the year, but in spring and autumn divided into three channels. There is but little current thus far, as the stream is gorged back by the waters of the Columbia. The portage over the falls is no small under- taking. I killed several of the Cervus Lcucurus, or long white-tailed deer, as well as some of the black-tailed kind, C. macrotis. Two days farther took me to the village of the Calapoori Indians, a peaceful, well-disposed people, twenty-four miles above the falls, and where I formed my camp for several days. A hunting party started from hence, proceeding westerly over the ridge of mountains. Near my encampment was a saline spring, to which the deer frequently resorted, as well as the beautiful ringed species ni' Cnhinilni, whose elegant movements when picking up and licking tin- saline particles that were found round the edge afforded me great amusement. In the extensive plains, bounded on the west by the mountainous woody part of the coast, and mi the east by high mountains, and as also on the banks of the River Samliam. one of the rapid branches of the Multnomak, grows abundance of the Escholtzia Calif ornica ( Hot. K.-- t. 1168. Hot. Mair. t. 2287), also Iris tenax (Bot. |{-r. t. li'ls. Hot. Ma-r. t. :m:i). Mcutiana multivalvis (Hot. K LT. t. 1IMI7), two new species of Tridiostimmn, and many other- delightful plants. I procured sonn- curious kinds of Mi/nj-iis, Mas. .I/V/O//M/.S;. a new species of Cants, of singular hiil. its. and a genus of animals which had been hitherto unde- scrilied (probably <!<<nnys Douyltisii of Richardson's Fauna !;,,, ili .imricana). In the tobacco pouches of the natives I found the seeds of a remarkably large Pine, which they eat as nuts, and from whom I learned that it f?rows on the moiin-