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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 & bolsom fir timber. all being tired & hungry oblidged us to kill another colt and eat the half of it this evening. it has quit snowing this evening but continues chilley 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 scatered the mare which owned the colt which we killed went 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 mockasons in some places verry slippery bad travelling for our horses. we ascended verry high mountains verry rocky Some bald places on the top of the mountn high rocks standing up & high precipices squiggle these mount. mostly covred with Spruce pine & balsom fir timber crossed several creeks or spring unclear in the course of the day. Came about unclear miles this day and Camped at a Small