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Friday July 9 1880 Set out early in a Course about N.N.W. across the hills and in about an hour intersected a well beaten wagon road, leading in the direction we wished to go - We knew this was not the Mullen Road, yet it must be very near it, and is running parallel to the same - Follow it to the right, and at about 3 miles came to the banks of a Trele? Lake, on our left, with pine timber on its banks and ducks in the water: Here we stopped a couple of hours, in consequence of a rain storm, but as the rain soon subsided, we packed up and set out, keeping along in sight of the Lake about 2 miles when we enter pine lands, and soon find ourselves on the Mullen Road which we follow a few miles to near the bluffs of Hangman Creek, when we leave said road and bear off to the left, on a more recently opened road leading to the town of Spokan Falls - after leaving the Mullen Road about 8 miles we descend the steep bluffs of the Hangman Creek, and camp - Raining considerable - Grass poor - Here we are upon the line af the N.P.R.R. and hundreds of men and chinamen, carts, wagons, horses & boys may be seen at work all along the line. The survey of said road leaves? the Columbia River at the mouth of Snake River, follows a N.E. course on the South side of Snake River, crossing