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   The Douglass pine where procurable should
be selected where Cedar cannot be had.
   I may here mention that the red pine in
question prevails wherever there is a growth of wood
from the Priests Rapids upwards to some distance
beyond Kamloops. It ceases (by the Brigade trail)
at Bonapartes River near Green Lake
   There is excellent pasture for animals all
along the Similkameen
   The dry gravelly flats are interspersed with
fertile bottoms in parts. The Prickly Cactus
and the Rattlesnake attest the warmth and
dryness of the soil.
   The Rattlesnake however does not extend
beyond Thompsons River the Cactus as far as
Alexandria
   Arrived at the point called on my map
Toneharneen or the "Red Earth" fork the question
you proposed to me comes up. At this point
or near it the village of Princetown is I am
told, now established.
   I should strongly dissuade your attempting
to continue the line hence to Fort Hope. In the
first place I see no object to be gained by it. In
the next you will abandon a most eligible
line of country for a rugged and difficult one
more than twice as long to reach the crossing
of the Thompson.
   Owing to the narrowness of the valley

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