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a little more Soup and let our horses graze 1 hour & a half. then proceeded on the Snow is fell So fast that it is now in common 5 or 6 Inches deep. Some places is considerable of old Snow on the montn. towards evening we descended the mountain down in a unclear Some cove on a creek where we Camped in a thicket of Spruce pine & balsom fir timber. all being tired & hungry oblidged us to kill another colt and at the half of it this evening. it has quit snowing this evening but continues chilling and cold. came about 15 miles to day. over a rocky rough road. Some places bare on the top high places of rocks.

Tuesday 17th Sept. 1805 cloudy and cold we went out to hunt our horses but found them much Sintered? the mare which owned the colt which we killed back & led 4 more horses back to where we took dinner yesterday the most of the other horses found unclear on the mountain but we did not find them all untill 12 oclock at which time we Set out and proceeded on the Snow lay heavy on the timber passed along a rough road up and down the mountains descended down a steep part of the moutn. the afternoon clear & warm the Snow melted so that the water stood in the trail over our