Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 28
Dear Sir, - The article, communicated by Prof. Eaton, and published in Vol. xxv, No. 2, of your Journal, as being founded on a letter he received from me, written on the Columbia river, is found, in some respects to demand correction ; to do which, (in the mean time taking the liberty of stating a few facts, observed during the journey across the continent and a residence in that country,) is the inducement to make this communication.
The route pursued was from Lexington in the State of Missouri, along the road of the Santa Fe traders, about thirty miles beyond the line of that State, thence N. W. to the Kanzas river at the government agency, up that river to the village of the Kanzas Indians, then across the country, encamping on the Blue Creek, to the river Platte against the Grand Island. Soon after leaving the State of Missouri, the country becomes comparatively barren, with little timber except along the streams, and the grass not of sufficient growth to carry fire over the undulating prairies. Sandstone and flinty limestone, both containing many shells were found in place, and granite, and red quartzose rock in bowlders. Ascending the Platte, over the bottoms of two or three miles in width, to its Forks, you pass no streams coming in from the sandy bluffs, and rolling barren country beyond. The river is very broad and shallow, unfit for any kind of navigation, and sweeps along its due proportion of sand and mud to the main Missouri.
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