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saw pine spruce & ceeder balsom fir also on the top & vallies of ? mountains. the bottoms on the points verry narrow along the shores, we came 19 miles this day through verry rapid water and camped on the South Side a light sprinkling of rain this evening.-- Saturday 20th July 1805. a clear morning. we set out as usal and proceeded on at 8 oclock we came to a lower part of the mountains we found along the shores a great quantity of currents of all kinds yallow red & black they are now ripe and we eat pleanty of them the black kind are the most pallatable. one of the men killed one elk and found the skin of an other which Capt. Clark had killed and left a note letting us know that he would only go over the range of these? mountains and wait our arrival. the curent verry rapid passed a small creek on the South side about 2 oclock P.M. we got through this range of mountains saw an other range a head. saw a smoak? in the valley between. some level plains in the valley. some timber scatering along the river. proceeded on saw a great nomber of otter along the Shores. passed a plain on the N.S. in the valley between 2 mountains. this valley