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1 oclock and push on till nearly 4 when we camp. Get specimens of the granite quartzose rock &c. Fid a tooth of Elephas [[prinigenus?]] in the bank near the rapids & leave it till we come down. It was probably brought down by the ice as there are no tertiary or other fossiliferous beds in the part of the country. Find wild currants & gooseberry vines in blossom. Have a number of canoes along some of which will go as far up as we go. They are indefatigable [[?]], as are all Indians one of them killed a porcupine with dark hair tipped with yellow of which I get the head

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_______ Tuesday June 11 ________________
NE 2. Horizontal layers of hard black quartzose rock 1 m. NE by N 3. wide with an island. NW by N 2. a little lower on both sides N by W 2. N sd high. NE by E 4. Island. both sides high. NE by E 3. S. sd rather lower, 5 creeks S. sd E by N. 5. The river is apparently running between two ranges of hills 
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being thus alternate low points & high hills of bluffs on each side. N by E 2. Island. NE by N. 2. NNE. 3. NW by N 3. & camp.

_________ dont notice an [[?]] Morning sleep till 1 P.M and start at 4.35° Cut our bidarra on a stone & stop to sew it & chi peet at 10. get off again and travel till 4 AM when we camp on a beach having tracked nearly all day between mountains &c.