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hails? me with an attendant Eolus - on awaking this morning I found myself upon his busom ploughing our way in defiance of a chilly north-wester. I was made certain of my locality by an old & bony character declaring we had gone right past ? in the night & were again up the Mississippi. The view here & until your reach its confluence with the Missouri, which many consider the [[parent/?] stream, is wide turbid, & filled with uncertain currents sweeping downward with gigantic power sweeping all obstructions from its course & cutting away the banks on one side while it adds to them upon the other, raising treacherous sandbars in a day & destroying an island which it unclear fifty miles below -- The banks are low of dark earth originally the sediment of the river & are being continually removed or replaced by the changing course of the stream - the land on other side is flat extended some distance back to low ranges of hills called "bluffs" and covered with a thick growth of wood = It has not the beauty of the Ohio, but possesses a heedless grandeur & power unknown to the former, the signification of whose name is "the beautiful river". -- At 4 o'clock on the morning of the 25th of May we arrived in St Louis & I took lodgings by the advice of Mr Bell at the "American" which I found