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Mem. In all cases by the right or left bank of a river.  I mean the right or left proper-i.e. Descending

I assume the starting point to be the left bank
at the Priests rapids.

From this point to Okanogan the shortest
and best route for travelling with horses is by
striking off from the Columbia some 6 or 7 miles
above the rapids to the "Grand Coulee", a natural
ravine which cuts across the bend of the Columbia
and again approaches close to the river below the
Spokan Forks.

To reach Okanogan the trail leaves the Coulee
a short distance below a small lake called the
Lac a l'eau Bleue one of the few watering
stations in that extensive ravine. This trail (the
ordinary travelled road) skirting the Columbia
a few miles above Okinagan.

The "Grande Coulee" presents the appearance 
of what might be imagined to be the dried up bed
of a river, say of the Columbia diverted by some
extraordinary convulsion of nature at some long
bygone period.  It furnishes an excellent line
of communication entirely free from obstacles for
ordinary purposes.  For a telegraph line it is
however not suitable from the entire absense of
wood for posts.

Water is only found in several spots at very long intervals.