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down the Kvikhpak river, with a view to explore the lower portions of it.  This party was under the command or Mr. Chas. Pease, and the following notes taken by Mr. Smith, I herewith append.  [[marginalia]] (20) [[/marginalia]]

The Kvikhpak river from Nulato to [[?Andreacffsky Adinotchka]], (second rate post,) a distance of nearly 300 miles, varies in width from 1 1/2 to 5 miles;  with a current averaging from 3 to 4 knots.  The right bank, coming down, is high, and heavily timbered;  Spruce and poplar trees forming the principal wood.

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From [[?"Andreacffsky"]] the wooded country ceases entirely, and the banks are considerably lower, the country having the same appearance at that in the immediate vicinity of the sea.

Numerous Indian villages line the shores, and are inhabited in the summer.  At the mouth of the [[?Chugeluk]] river, a stream emptying into the Kvikhpak, they found a very large Indian settlement, where the Indians, during the months of June and July, catch large quantities of Salmon.  The principal points where fish are caught are at the mouth of the river, the Mission, Nulato and Andreacffsky.  The river is full of islands;  and i the summer large quantities of geese, ducks, swans, &c. nest on them.  The river soundings give from 1 1/2 to 8 Fathoms in the channel, but is full of sand bars, extending out from ost of these islands.  These
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