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Plumper, Esquimalt, Vancouver Island, Sill, July 7th, 1859. 1 luive the honour to report that, in pursuance of your oid(;rs, I pid- cecdcd to Langlcy, and, taking the first steamer to Fort Hope, reached tliat phice ou tlie liSrd oi' April. IrrowsfTuUt 214 Mayne's Report on a I left Fort Hope on tlio 29th, and reached Foit Yale on the same cvi'ninj;. Tlie part of the Frasur liiver between Forts Hope and YaK^ is .so wi'll known that 1 need not speak of it, excei)t i)ei]iaps to say lliat .several rock.s mnst be removed before it can be made reasonably safe ibr steam navigation. We left Yale on the 2nd of May, and followed the river trail to Lytton, which we ri'ached on tlie 7th. 'J"he distance by trail from Yale to Lytton is abont 00 miles, and tlie gronnd over which the trail pa,sses is the roughest on which 1 have ever travelled, the greater part of it being over shar}) pointed rocks or granite bonlders. Some of the ascents in the Great Cafion, which is miles long, are from 30" to OO", and nt'arly i)erpeiidicnlar over the water, TIk' current in the narrowest parts ] estimated at 15 or Ki knots an lioiu'. Dnrinii the whole snmmer this part of tlie river is im])assabie for lioats going up ; and thongh some few people liave come down it in safety, a great many have jierished in the attemjit. There is hardly any land fit for cultivation between Lytton and Yale. There is a small flat at Spuzznm and several above Boston Bar, bnt they oidy average 200 or 300 yards long by 50 or GO wide, and are almost all thickly timbered and covered with granite bonlders. The largest one is about 9 miles below Lytton and is fenced in. It is about 1000 yards long by 400 yards wide, well covered with gra.ss, bnt very sandy soil. From Yale to ]5oston Bar the vegetation is limited to pine-trees and a few alders, wild onions and vetches growing among the rocks. Above I'oston l?ar it im]iroves, and on the flats before- mentioned there an; currants, cherries, gooseberries, and Oregon gras.ses in considerable quantities, and willows and maple in addition to the ]iine and alder. Aliont 2 miles above Boston Bar we found a bed of fine clay-slate rnnning in an easterly direction, dip ranging from 5° to 40°, strike abont 25°, and abont 3 miles farther on we came to a bed of limestone, the only one we saw between Yide and Lytton. Tlie surface was very small. '\Vith the exception of these two beds and a very small surface of clay-slate clo.-se to Spnzznm, wo .saw nothing but granite both in the monntains and in bonlders of every shape and size, .some ^*- AV-t'; loton Bar being 10 or 15 tons weight. There i.s ,■ at Spuzznm and another at I'oston Bar, The former it is not necessary .ross travelling on foot, but the latter must be crossed to get to Lytton. There arc several " Ilestanrants " along the road (every ]ilacc where anything can he got to eat is called a restaurant in this country), where tea, coffee, bread, bacon, and beans can be got, as well as a plaidc to sleep on ; and these ])laces are at such distances ajiart that no man possessed of any money need sleej) out. At Dhapman and Boston Bars there are large stores belonging to the express- men ?,Ie.s.:,i\,. Wells, Fargo, and Co., and Ballon. The imde-trail leaves the river at Yale and meets it at Spnzznm, crosses it there, and again leaves it imtil reaching Lyttcm. It was blocked up by snow when I went w\\, Lytton is at the forks of the Thomjison and Fras(>r rivers on the soutli bank of tlu! former and east of the latter, and is composed of eight or ten stores and a Government House, The site of the town is nearly 300 feet above the river on the up))er of two benches, the lower of which is about 200 feet above the water. The b.ink on the opposite side of the Fraser is in three benches, the highest being about (100 feet, and the river is 57(5 feet wide at this sea.son. The opposite bank of the Thompson is about the same height as Lytton. The Thomp.son Biver is about 150 yards wide at its mouth, and there is a horse-ferry across it for trains going to the Fountain, &c,, &c. It is always blowing hard from north or south, the latter wiml [irevailing in sunnner, and the clouds of dust which continually sweep across the flat make it anything but a desirable si)ot for a residence. Journey in British Colamhia. 216 Wc left Fiytiou for KuiiiIodii, a jmst of llic Iludsdii I'.iy ConijiiUiy, on tlio 'riiiiiiipsdii liivcr, on tlit' iiltcvnooii of tlic !»tli of May, luid t'uUowcd tlic soutli bank of tliat river for i) or 10 niilcs, wlicn wc asLrnilcil a stct'i) liill for aliout li miles, and canio to a valley oxtendinjj; abont 10 milos to tlio eastward, well covered with ,i!;rass and hemmed in by liills TOO or SOo feet liiuii. From liiis [loint tlie aspect of the country beciinie mnch more pnimisinii tlian tlu! Vnliey of tiie Fraser. After traversimi; tlie whole hie^tli of lliis valley we went down upon the iN'icola JUvor, and fordin;j; it, followed its left bank till we came to the Nicola 1/ake. The Xicola River is far ])rctticr than any others T liave seen in the comitry. It is very rapid and full of small islands and sandbanks, and winds alonj;- in reaches of about half-a-mile lon^. At each bend thei'o is a flat of 5 or (i acres of clear fjrass-land, which would be very valuable were they not constantly Hooded in sunuuer. In some places the banks are hi^h enon<;h to prevent this, l>ut tj;enerally the soil does not a]i]]ear to be so ;j,ood as where the banks are low, and tlu! rise of the river is so diil'erent in different years that it would re([uire a residence of several summers to know which are Hooded and which are not. Another i^reat drawback tt) a^ricidture is a deposit of nitrate; of soda, which, thouL::h we lirst noticed it here, ajij'ears more or less thronah all the country. Mr. McLean, tla; oflicer of the Hudson Bay Comjiany, in char;;e of Fort Kandoo]), told me that where it is in lar^e quantities it destroys wlieat, but that it has very little eli'ect on veiietabhs. lU'hind the Hats the mountains rise from 500 to 1000 feet, but though some are bluffs of trap and sandstone, far the greater number are covered with grass nearly to their sunnnits. The haid^s of the Nicola are for the most ])art of clay, nearly ]ier]iendieular, and averaging about 20 feet high, but in some [ilaces they ari; loO feet and in others only a few inches above tlie water even at tins season, and lined with ])oplars and willows. The bed of the Nicola is much higher than that t)f the 'i'hompson, there b(;ing aViout 1100 feet difference between the jilaccs where I left the latter and joined the former. About 1") miles before conung to the Nicola T-ake there is a valley extending to the northward, 5 or (i miles wide. It is not tpiite level, but the soil apj'cais good, though, like all this country, too sandy for an Fnglishman's notion of rich land. It is well covered with grass, and there are not more than ten or lifteen trees to an acre. The hills bounding it are from 700 to 1000 feet high. The Indians say th(;re is a lake in it running nearly jiarallel with Nicola Fake. The Nicola or ISmeehaatlon lies nearly north and south, and is about, 14 uiiles long by 1 to 2 wide. The baidut 1 believe it is a great though common error to sujijiose that crops are destroyed nearly every year liy frost at ]ilaccs even iVrthei north than Alex- andria, once in four or Hve years being a fair average, (ireat (piantities of ]iutatoes are grown at the head of both 'J'hoii] son and North rivers by the Jiidiaiis, but nothiug else has been tried. At Kamloop vegetables of all kinds thrive very well. A bushel of wheat there vields on an average 15 bushels. ^Ir. McLean .«ays that at Alexamlria he has known it yield 40. '['here is considerable trade now carried on across the American frontier, and through Kamloop to the Fraser, and to the small rivers branching oif from the Thompson, on nearly all of which thvic are or have been miiu'is working. A great quantity of spirits and other things were smuggled into the country this way last year. (iold has been found in the rivers Tranquillc, Defont, Nicola, and Nicaomen, ami silver in the latter, by Mr. ^IcLean, and I believe he sent the first gold that was found in I British Columbia from the last-named river. He assured me also that he had seen copper obtained by the Indians from a mine on the north bank of the Shusliwap liake, so pure that they made arrows-heads, jtipe- stems, c^'C, of it. There is a trail from this to Fort Hope which is always used by the servants of the Hudson Bay Company for transporting their goods to and from the northern parts. It is, however, ilangerous in some parts, and a number of horses are lost each tiilic the fur-brigade comes down. There is a bad swamp 7 or 8 miles long, and a steep mountain, Manson ]\Iountain, both of which they have to cross. It takes them ten or fifteen days to go from Kamloop to Hope ; Imtlamtold that, travelling without luggage, it could be done in three or four days. A man has gone from Kamlooi) to Langley in five days. The Indians all over the country suffered tearfully from want of food last winter, a great many dying of starvation. It was owing in a great measure to their ini]>rovidence, most of them leaving off the fishing, hunting, Szc, last summer in the general mania for gold-digging, and making no provision for the winter. This state of things accounts lor the number of thefts jierpetrated on miners and others by them, their only choice in most cases being to steal or die. I think they can hardly be wondered at for preferring the former. We left Kamloop for the Favillon on the 17th IMay, and rode along the north bank of the Bhuswap l^ake as far as Tranquille Kiver; after fording S K !>- >1 , . , T i Juurncjj in British Cohnnbia. 217 0(1 tlie fort I'ditli rivers, 1(1 is one (•!' ric alxiiit 10 111(1 were it luri! last tlic! il the water I was tlicvo, c'livreiit hero nwcr (Idwii ; to the river, u it imist bo 10 as at the the j^oiiiil- an auricul- rosidod lor ect to iVost. it crops are than Alex- luantities of vers by the of all kinds 15 bushels. Von tier, and L)ff from the orking. A ;ountry this I Nicaomon, 10 first tiold He assured mine on the leads, j)ipe- ;he servants I from tho inimber of bad swamp which they p to Hope ; hrce or four of ffjod last measure to ig, itc, last rovision for lerpot rated t to steal or mer. e alonp; the I'ter fording which we ascended a stoe]i hill to the northward and opened about 3 miles of very nice grass-land, and then coming down again I'olhnved the lake to the copper-mine, at the foot of which we camped. It is in a bank of about f-'dO feet high that the copper is found, but we searched fruiu top to bottom without linding any, though everytlib.g was coluuicd witli it. 'The road along tho nouh -iide of ShH«w«|» I^ake is very rough, the hills sloping down to tho edge of the lake. After about five hours' riding \\o reached the river De'font, acnjss which wo had to swim the horses, an under- taking which the force of the current makes both diflicult and dangerous to perform, though tho river is only 20 or oO yards wide. The west bank of this river is about 'JoO feet high, on ascending whic'' there is a grass plain H or (i miles long, and from that to the liivor do la Caciic is all good grazing-ground, and indeed 1 might almost say all the way to fho Tavillon. 'J'liero is a small stream two yards wide between the rivers l)e font and 1 )e la Cache, which is dignified by tho name of Conteaux IJiver, and here wo loft the 'i'hompson and turned a littk- northward, the river running away to tho southward. All th(i Thompson Hiver from the Shuswap is very much like tho Nicola, but larger and not so i)retty. ^J'he soil near the River do la Cache is very good, but covered with soda. Tho river is small and shallow, but just above where it joins the I'onaparte being the best ford in that river makes it a gtiod place for a revenue station, as the I?onaparto b'iver must be crossed in going to cither Fountain or I'avillon, except by going round to Lytt;\" where there is a magistrate. We crossed tho Pxjiiajtarte River on tho morning of the 19th May, finding only 3 ft. Oin. of water in the deepest part of tho ford, which was an agreeable sur|iriso, for wo exi)ccted this to have boon the worst of all tho riv( vs as it was far the largest we crossed lietween Kandoop and ravilloii, and we had been told the deepest. Wo skirted along a steo]) hill on the north side of it, down which one of tho pack-horses fell, though fortunately without injury, and we then came down again on the river. This hill would be avoidul if the river were bridged, as the bridge would be thrown across higher up, whore tho trail enjsses the stream in winter, but the river at this season is too deep for fording at that part. Tho valley of the lionajiarte is not ([uito so much covered witli tho nitrate of soda as tho oihor valleys wo passed through ; indeed, neither tho Houaiiarte or Cliapeau valleys contains so much of it as those of the Thomjison and Nicola. ^^'e followed tho north bank of the Bonajiartc for about 7 miles till wo met the (Jha[)eau Hiver, from whence we followed the Chapeau for 12 miles, cross- ing the river several times. The Ibnajiarte turns northward after its junction with Chapeau to Lake Loon, in which 1 believe it takes its rise. '^I'he Chapeau lIi\or is a remarkable one, though only 10 or 12 yards wide, inasmuch as it and the Thompson make an island of about 25 S(juare miles of country, in tho same way that the Nicola and '^rhomi)S(tii make one of 40 S(piare mil(\s farther south. After leaving the I'oiiajiarte it turns westward for about 12 miles, and then turns southward, joining tho Fraser about JH miles .above Lyttou. Its banks are from 20 to tiO loot high, and tho valley averages 800 yards in width. Here the limestono commences, and from this to Lake Tavillon there is hardly anything else. fjoaving the Chapeau we turned north, and through a narrow valley between perpendicular limestone mountains 4000 to 5000 foot high, and came to a small lake (Crown), immediately beyond which is Lake ravillon, which is about n miles long and % of a mile wide. At the north end of this lake there is a most curious peak like a round tower, called by the Indians Skillo ITia- lock ; and about a mile farther on is a farm of about 20 acres, on which throe Americans are at work. 'J'hey had not tried grain when I was there, but said they thought the_soil good. Four miles more along the north bank of the Ui 218 Mayne's Report on a k Pavilion River, which runs from the Lake to the Eraser, brought us to the ravilloii itself. The Pavilion is on the cast banl? of the Fraser, on a bench GOO feet above the river, very similar to that at Lytton. The wind blows and the dust flies in the same manner, '^riicro is one wooden house and several huts of canvas and bonji;lis, wliich, like their log contemporaries in the Cafions, are called restaurants. Flou- was 35 cents per lb. and l>acon 75 wlieu I was there, in the winter flour wu.-* as hiyli as 85 cents, and bacon 1 dollar 50 cents. 4'he chaiLfes for carriau'e of goods, &c., now are I'rom Pavilion to Kamloop 25 cents per lb. ; to Fountain, G ; to Oayoush, 8 ; and to 15ig Par, 8. From Lytton to Big Bar 30 cents. Big I'ar is about 18 miles above Pavilion. Silver and copper have both been found at tlio Pavilion ; the latter I have seen. We left Pavilion on the 23rd of May, and walked by a very good trail to the Fountain. The Fountain, so called from a small fountain there, is a very much prettier and better site for a town than Pavilion : the latter, however, possessing the great advantage of limestone, none of which 1 saw at the Fountain, though I do not doubt there is some not far from it. There is a considerable bend in the river at the Fountain, which shelters it to a considerable extent from the north and south winds. There are two or tlu'ee large stores here, and some half-dozen log-huts scattered over tlie flat. There is a valley at the west end of the flat wliich extends southwards as far as Foster Bar, and througli which there is a good trail. About 3 miles below Fountain, on the opposite side of the Fraser, is Bridge lUver, where there is a large store belonging to Messrs. Fraser and Davis, wlio have thrown a wooden bridge about 40 yards long across the river, 800 yai'ds I'rom its mouth, for crossing whicli they make the miners pay 25 cents a head ; they having, I am told, pulled down a bridge the Indians had made, and on which it was quite safe to cross. About H mile below tliis is French \\;w, where there is a ferry, by which we crossed ; and 2 miles I'arlher, on the west bank of the river, is situated Cayoush. (!ayoush is at the junction of the Tukumeth and Fraser rivers, where the Harrison Silloet route commences, and is the prettiest jilace 1 saw on the Fraser. Four or live huts, and the same number of stores, compose the town on the west side. On the east side the Hudson J Jay Company are building a ft)rt, to be called Fort Berens. It is to stand on the lowest of three benches, into wliich tlio bank is divided about 50 feet above the water. Tlu're is a ferry at (jayoush, and a trail on either side of the river to liytton. The draw- back to the one on the west side being that the Tukumeth is not always ford- able. On the 24th May we again left the Fraser, and struck down the Harrison Lillout route, and, following the Tukumeth, camped at the north end of Lake SetAiu, where tliere are a few huts for tlie boatmen wlio ply on tlie lake. The following morning we crossed Tiake Seton in four hours, and Lake Anderson the same afternoon in five. The two lakes are about tlu; same size, and have much tlie same ajtiiearance, but Lake Anderson tends much more to the southward than the other. J'.otli are bounded by steep mountains 30()0 to 5000 feet high, and both are very deej). 'J'here is no perc(.'ptil)le current in them and hardly :my rise and fall. Southerly is the prevailing wind, and it blows nearly always duriu'jc the day, the morning and evening being calm. These lakes are separated by a neck of land 1 \ miles wide, which is nearly level, and through whicl; runs a stream 20 or 30 yards wide. Port Anderson is at the south end of Lake Anderson. There is a large restaurant there lor the entertainment of muleteers, &c., i^c. From Port Anderson to Port Pemberton is the Hirkenhead Portage, or, as it is now generally called, the Mos([uito I'ortage, whieh name it certainly well de- serves, it is about 25 miles long by the trail, which is on the whole good. \ \ 14 Journey in British Columbia. 219 ^lit us to tho 30 feet above ho (lust flios its of canvas s, are called is there, in nts. . to Kaniloop ir, 8. From ive ravillon. attcr I have good trail to ;re, is a very ber, however, saw at tho sli shelters it e are two or )ver the flat, wards as far >er, is Bridge 1 Davis, who n-, 800 yards ents a liead ; iiade, and on Frencli \\m\ on tho west i, where the Faw on the )se the town e building a reo benches, Tlu're is a Thedraw- Iways ford- le Harrison ;nd of Lake lake. and Lake same size, ich more to lins 30l)0 to current in iud, and it teing calm. icarly level, lerson is at lere for the ge, r is very rapid, averaging 80 to 90 yards in width, but varying from 30 to 130 ynrds. Tliere is a large stream called the Amockwa ruiming into it from the southward about 9 miles below Port Lilloet, and another from the same direction cal'ed the Zoalkleen about 10 miles above Douglas. This Ifit ter is saiiles or not. Between the Tiittle and the Great Harrison lakes there is a narrow passage nearly half-a-mile long. In summer there is suflicient water in it for the flat- bottomed steamers to go through, but in winter there are only four or five inches, and it is generally frozen over. The (ireat Harrison is the largest of the chain of lakes. It is about 30 miles long and in some places 5 or B miles wide, in ap])carance much similar to the others. Inhere are two large valleys on the k. side, one running e.s.k., and the other n.e. The latter is said to extend nearly to Lytton. There is a stream running down it which I think takes its rise in the Cayonsh Lake. x\t the entrance totheCireat Harrison Lake there is a Hat, which, like the small passage at its head, dries or nearly dries in winter, thereby blocking out steamers for at least seven months in the year ; so that during the winter all goods have to be landed at the entrance of Harrison IJiver, and taken up the lake in boats. This difficulty maybe overcome, either by making a canal for the river steamers to ]iass through, or by making a road from the entrance of Harrison Kiver to the south end of the (ireat Harrison Lake, and keeping a steamer inside the lake to carry the freight to Port Douglas; or it may be found better to cut a road from the Fraser Piver Ihrough the valley of the south end of the (ireat Harrison Lake, avoiding Hairison liiver and the flat altogether. One of these three things must be done if the Harrison Lilloet is to be the high road to ISritish t'olnmbia. It is thonght that the opening of a road from Fort Hope to Postoii I'ar will cause the valley of the Fraser to be used for transporting goods into the interior ; but I think this a mistnkc, excejit of course as far as the mining bars between Yale and Lytton are concerned. In the first place Lytton is not in so central a position with regard to the mining-regions as Cayonsh, Fountain, or Pavilion. And the trail from Fountain to Lytton is much better from Boston Bar to that place. Gold has now been found in large quantities at Alexandria, and from Pavilion there is a trail through a valley parallel to the Fraser, along which a wagsiion might be driven nearly tlie wliole way. There is gold in almost all the tributaries of the Thompson River also, and the road from Kamloo]) to Fountain or Pavilion is much better than between Lytton and Kamloop. The country about Chilcoaten is, I am told, very good. A Canadian re- siding at Pavilion informed me he had travelled from Fort Chilcoaten to the lakes on Pridge River, through a valley parallel to the Fraser, and he knows an Indian who has been from thence to Port Douglas by a route leading down the valley east of the Lilloet ; and both of these routes he describes as being over good land, and such as a road might be made on without great diflicnlty. I'etween Fort Chilcoaten and the sea there is a chain of mountains tlin)Ugh which there are two known ]iasse3, one by the West Poad Piver, u]) which Sir A. McKenzie went, and the other at the head of Chilcoaten Piver, which I I Journey in British Columbia. 221 s cxiiiiiining it tlio route, it is Itvvri on llie sido he country. I Liartz about 10 ;e about a mile ater rises some r, as the water 13 of the liouses hey were built larrow passage it tor the tiat- ly lour or five It is about 30 ! much similar running e.s.k., 9. ril D I Z i 1 3 3 7 i IJrt* 2ri- 2i * 2;>- '26- ' ■M- ■2:)-. ' 2'.\- 28-{ 2a- 1 ' 2-.C; 2'J-l f I Journey in British Columbia. 223 Attached Therm. I Tenip. of Air. [bteouoloqical Observations taken in British Columbia during the Months of Ai'uil and May, 1859. G2 59 64 61 60 .56 49 57 60 57 61 56 59 59 59 61 66 64 65 60 60 57 54 56 57 57 62 61 6> 66 71 65 62 66 59 60 63 64 54 62 56 55 53 52 51 57 50 54 49| 57 55 57 57 65 611 63 52 58 54 54 52 57 56 61 57 63 62 67 60 59 59 56 55 59 58 52 64 60 59 54 57 55 60 57 65 55 61 54 60 60 61 52 58 58 60 55 61 59 58 52 64 58 58 56 BiU'ometer and Thermometer attached. Thermometer. te. 6 A.M. 5 P.M. 10 P.M. Remarks, Place, &c. (i A.M. iVoon. 5 p.m. 10 P.M. Noon •>9. ril o o 1) • • • • • 30-11 •651 •• •• -• Weather very fine; at Langlcy, Fraser River. I 30-10 67 , , • • , • • ,. . . Fine night ; overcast. 2 , , , , , . , , . . , Fine i . . , , , .. • . , , . , Ditto; at Fort Hope. 1 , , 29-54 61 , 29 71 53 .. 54' , . 54 Ditto; force of wind 4-6. 3 21) -80 51 29-92 .)4 ^ 29-97 64 511 54i . . 54 Cloudy ; slight showers, &c. 3 , , 29-97 ,)6 i>9 97 57 29-98 57 54i 34 47 Cloudy. 7 2'.)-7'.t 56 29-75 56 29-78 57 _ • 58 60 51 47 Ditto. i 211-83 53 29-83 a.i 29-85 5() 29-86 53 45 30 48 38 Ditto ; slight showers. i :ii)-87 a3 . , 29-50 50 29-53 53 45 50 48 38 Very fine. ) 1^9 •37 54 29-57 *o4 29-61 63 - • 45 50 48 38 Cloudy ; Fort Yale, F. R. I • 29-53 62 Fine; at Fort Yale. I 29-51 *51 29-32 61 29-50 bi . • •M 60 53 50 Very fine. i 2'.l- 17 40 29-47 81 , 40 85 50 48 Ditto : at Ferryhouse, F. R. I 20 -Gj 54 29-76 62 29-72 61 29-73 57 53 63 61 54 Ditto ; passing along river. > :iU-72 47 29-36 65 29-08 73 29-98 59 41 69 60 50 Ditto; Therm, in sun >sl°; at IJoston Bar. ! 2d -87 51 29-47 <7 29-13 74 29-07 58 43 73 74 36 Ditto; ditto 80°. 2.) -02 5li . . 28-78 57 50 52 Ditto; force of wind 3-5. 1 2.V47 51 , , , . 50 64 48 44 Ditto ditto. 1 2;) -02 44 29-07 ■54 29-21 61 29-06 47 40 61 54 42 Flue; Lytton, F. R. 1 29- a 44 26-50 64 27^72 M 2; -70 48 43 64 50 ■V Ditto ditto. 27-75 43 28-04 63 27 •85 60 27-85 55 30 65 55 55 Weather flue; passing along the N'lcola River. t 27-92 43 27-97 64 27-42 60 27-81 48 42 70 63 40 Ditto. ; 27-80 41 27-4ti 6.) 26-25 70 26-65 44 30 79 70 45 Ditto; ontopofSkytakew-hlll, near Fort Thompson. 2G-60 40 28-62 72 28-33 66 26-65 44 32 <2 65 30 Ditto ; at Fort Kaniloop or Thompson. i 28 -HS 46 28-53 80 , 28-44 68i 46 76 70 68 Ditto. , 28-28 09 28-26 73 28-35 62 28-50 58 65 70 50 50 Ditto. •2.->-t,5 65 27-69 72 27-62 72 28-42 62 65 73 60 58 Ditto; at Lake Slmcwap. 2rt-41 58 2^-44 77 28-11 ()3 28-19 55 48 82 56 50 Ditto; therm. In sun 127° at noon. 2d-i7 39 27-61 69 2: -10 67 2,-10 M 34 80 5t! 33 Ditto. 2,-11 49 27-71 73 28-46 73 28-28 62 ■18 80 67 64 Ditto. . ti 2,v2i 58 28-17 73 28- r, ;9 28-10 60 60 80 73 60 Ditto ; force of -wind 4*6. 1 1 ^ 2«-l-l 53 28-06 71 2-'-o:j 55 28-2.) 53 51 V5 58 55 Ditto ; slight showers, &c. 5 3 . 2a -09 49 28-70 67 28-60 63 i!9-25 53 40 68 63i 59 Cloudy; slight showers, &c. >^ ^ Very tine. 1 — ^ 2;) -49 53 29-84 e; 29-J.j ' •> i!9-a4 57 52 70 67 55 1 ■29 •,-)■» 55 2)-,)2 80 29- 15 60 29-15 58 5.) 80 72 60 Therm, in sun 90°. Jj^ji ' 29-17 00 29-02 ;o 28-24 67 23 08 ii9 55 iO 65 59 Passing along the Harrisu;i uiid Lllloel Trail. 28-00 51 29-06 72 28-90 63 28^89 61 uO 72 (;8 61 A.M., line; i-.m., voiy rainy. 28-83 u6 2s -88 62 29'2I 57 , . 56 63 60 58 Cloudy ; slight showers. ' 29-28 53 29 -42 60 29-77 59 29-75 57 53 60 55 53 Ditto ditto. • 29 •67 b(> ..9-74 53 29 •a2 52 53 60 55 52 Heavy squalls of rain; at Port 1 )ouglas. 29-92 4i a- 12 59 m-iV 53 30-17 49 49 60 53 49 B'lne ; at Harrison l^ake. I