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with difficulty we get over them & verry fatiguing. at 1 oc pm. clouded up. wind high. proceeded on about a mile further up came passed a fork we took the right hand fork which was amazing rapid. Some of the rapids falls 3 or 4 feet or their abouts in the length of our canoes. we passed through a channel where the water was rapid and ran through the willows & young cotton wood the beaver had fell some of them across the channel and it crooked it was with much difficulty we got thro. oblidged to force our way through the bushes and hale by them. some places out in the water could scarsely unclear our but for the rapidity of the current. saw several beaver dams verry high. night came on. camped on L? side at a low bottom which has lately been overflowed. we expect this little stream is high from the snow melting on the mountains. it appears it has lately been higher but is now falling a little was it low their would not be water enofe in it for us to proceed any further by water our hunter killed a deer came 8 miles this day. the party much fatigued and wish to leave the canoes & go by land 232