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about 3 miles we camp for the night on the River bank - The country appears dry and very much burnt up - a few feeble attempts at farming may be seen, but it appears necessary to irrigate to raise any kind of grain crops - Grain is light and rather light. Burnt River runs through a Canyon with high and abrupt mountains bording? upon it with bold escarpments of basalt facing the River at nearly every turn - mining seems to have been done all along the river. and old and abandoned mining camps can be seen at short intervals We are now in Idaho Territory, the River being the line separating this Territory from Oregon - Mosquitoes are bad along the River, and we are pestered with them in camp today - Distance 23 miles. The water of the River is warm & alkaline