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The river is now very full of water from the melting of the snows on the mountains, so as to overflow its banks in many places and do much injury to the crops & buildings near by -
I noticed the white headed eagle very abundant, but recognized no other animals etc worth noting.  
The day was throughout foggy & raining without much wind, the direction of that being S.W. Toward night the fog began to clear away

[[underlined]] June 14th [[/underlined]]  Reached Portland on the Willamnirette about 8 o'clock. This place is about 90 miles from the mouth of the Columbia, and is the principal town in Oregon containing now about 2000 inhab.

June 15th  Walked across the neck of land formed by these rivers & was ferried over to Vancouver in Washington Territory, a station of U.S. troops & of the Hudsons Bay Co. a few other persons living in the vicinity.  Weather warm but not oppressive sky clear no wind.

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July 1st  I have made several short excursions into the vicinity. The country is flat - alluvial and covered with a dense forest of coniferous trees. I have observed many of the same species of plants and animals common in the Eastern States, besides many allied but not identical species -
Among birds are the whiteheaded eagle common crow, Carolina dove, barn swallow yellowbird ruffed grouse, black vulture ?
The raccoon appears to be the same, also the Virginian [[horse?]], silver mole.& ground squirrel.  A species of garter snakes is the only one I have seen, and a large water tortoise like the Emys picta toads & frogs comprise the reptiles - Nearly everything however appears to differ somewhat from the analogous species in the east, particularly among the plants so that I am afraid to give the same names to them, though I think that the influence of distance climate &c - is often too much overlooked in separating new species from those almost if not quite identical. This I see more & more as I examine the differences laid down by books and compare with living individuals 

Transcription Notes:
Willamnirette is presumably a misspelling of Willamette. Emys picta = painted turtle @roswilkes