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14 [[underline]] Chehalis River [[\underline]] [[left margin]] Mch 24th [[\left margin]] [[left margin]] Distance [[\left margin]] Left camp early & continued up the river for about 19 miles camping near [[underline]] Armstrong mill.[[\underline]] [[left margin]] Scenery [[\left margin]]The appearance of the country is similar to that of yesterday but less hills in sight. [[left margin]] Fraxinus [[\left margin]] [[left margin]] [[underline]] Oregan[[\underline]] [[\left margin]] [[left margin]] Prairie [[\left margin]] Ash & maple are common since reaching freshwater. Made a short cut through beautiful pairie about 2 miles long undulating & with a gravelly soil. Oaks appear here probably the first to be found. [[left margin]] Querous Garryan[[?]] [[\left margin]] Notice a Dentarea[[?]] in flower (Purp) [[left margin]] Current [[\left margin]] The river begins to be swifter with Islands & rapids at intervals. The bottom is gravelly & sandy. Weather windy & drizzling. [[left margin]] 3th [[\left margin]] [[left margin]] Dist [[\left margin]] Continued up the river for about 13 mmiles & camped in a Pine forest. [[left margin]] Weather [[\left margin]] Weather still rainy & windy. [[left margin]] River [[\left margin]] Passed several steep rapids & the whole river is higher & more rapids than before. [[left margin]] Mts. [[\left margin]] The highest spurs of the Coast Range appear along today's course. The rock seems to be a kind of hard clay of a red color. The hillside here is steep & covered with trees. [[left margin]] Woods [[\left margin]] The woods at camp - East of this resemble those at Vancouver & at Brigets Sound. [[left margin]] Lepus [[\left margin]] Heard in the evening a barking sound said to be made by hares! [[end page]] [[start page]] 15 [[underline]] to Olympia [[\underline]] [[left margin]] March 6th [[drawing of crescent moon]] [[\left margin]] [[left margin]] Rain [[\left margin]] Weather still rainy & more constantly so than yesterday the wind becoming quite strong at night from the SW. [[left margin]] Distance [[\left margin]] Left camp about 7 1/2 AM. & arrived at Grand Mound Prairie about 2PM. River rose last night about 1 foot & it needed all our force to steer[[?]] it. [[left margin]] [[?Trudus nocuun Coccoth Vesper? Snaher occid.]] [[\left margin]]Heard Painted Robin plenty in all the woods (& noticed a new note of it like the flying call of a finch). Observed Sialiae at Durgins mound. [[left margin]] Geology [[\left margin]] Cliffs exposed at three points today show a harder formation & at one place a wide white stratum of [[strikethrough]] clay? [[\strikethrough]]. The hills are higher perhaps 300ft. [[left margin]] Trees [[\left margin]] The Hazel is now blooming - Cornus suecica & Douglassii are common since leaving the influence of tide water. A Red, White & Yellow fir are distinguished here by lumbermen while the spruce is very rare up here. [[left margin]] 7th [[\left margin]] [[left margin]] Miles [[\left margin]] Left Goodells at 8 1/2 & rode to Olympia in 7 hours a distance of 20 miles. This route was before described & now differs only in the green hue of the prarires & the leaf of Oaks &c [[left margin]] Mounds 2 course [[\left margin]] [[?]]etre the [[underline]] Mounds the[[\underline]] result of the escape of gases, steam or hot water. Saw a yellow violet in bloom & also a sm all blue flower of Coll. of 1854 [[left margin drawing]] Heard Gass Cariad - near Olympia.
