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[[boxed text]] 7 [[ou?]] - 2 mi. [[/boxed text]]
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Course from Ft. Vancouver to Mankas plain
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[[image: hand-drawn map showing orientation. On the dividing Colum line an arrow head pointing up with a N directly below. A Brown road shown winds across the column from the top right corner to lower left dissecting the column; surrounding woods and forests are shown, annotated are three streams, and their direction, intersecting the road.
Starting from the top of the column notes on the map are:
[[Taht or Gonness?]] plain  Covington
2nd camp
Forests of Red, white & black fir  Douglas's  2 maples,  dogwood  alder &c.
1st camp. Wahwaikee
[[margin note, written vertically]] 6 miles [[/margin]] ]]
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[[image: hand-drawn map showing road winding from the top right corner to the lower left of the first column section, in brown, and illustrative of the country being traversed; forests and mountains. 
Notes on the map:
4 miles
Stream  1 rod wide
Burnt timber
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[[image: hand-drawn map showing road winding from the top right corner to the lower left of the second column section, in brown, and country traversed; forests, streams, and mountains]] 
notes on the map: 
Simsik brook camp
[[written vertically]] 6 miles [[/written vertically]]
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[[image: hand-drawn map showing winding road from the top right corner to the lower left of the third column section, in brown, and country traversed; forests.]]
Notes on the map:
3rd camp
Mill or [[Tarcharson?]] plain
[[written vertically]] 6 miles [[/written vertically]] 
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[[underlined]] General Notes [[underlined]] - 1853.
June 13th: Entered the mouth of Columbia River, after a passage of 26 days from New York omitting  detentions on the isthmus & at San Francisco.  The appearance of this river is very different from what I had been led by descriptions to expect.  Near Astoria the shores are low gently rising into hills, densely covered by evergreen trees.  As we go eastward the banks show much variety of form & structure, being sometimes low marshy meadows for 1 or 2 miles, then suddenly rising in perpendicular precipices to the height of 50 or 100 feet - so steeply as [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] would [[/insertion]] make it very difficult to climb.  The width of the river changes from 1, to 3 miles, in the wider portions, divided by islands of the same character as the banks, but covered [[circled text, with line leading to end of this paragraph]] instead of by evergreens [[/circled text]] by a luxuriant growth of deciduous trees. [[insertion]] principally [[/insertion]]

Transcription Notes:
Still getting used to Graham's handwriting; many [[?]]s need to be verified. @roswilkes The brown road marked is probably the path of survey to mark the route for the railroad construction teams.