The Arkansas banner., 1845-11-12
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GES4EamEN:--He arrived here last eve ming ii, lie steamboat John Goalong, frem
 Fort Ieavenworlh, having been on thc Wal ters of the mighty river 3l days, and naviga- ting l400 miles, 759 in log canoe, tue ba
 lance in steamboa.o. We are all we'll
 My last letter was dated at Pfarie dn Chien, about the first of July, ct which place ] sx- pected guide to the Missouri, was disap- pointed, aad again al Fort Atkinson, 50 miles west of the Mississippi, disappointed, though Col! Wilson and Major Daarbon, and the h. dian Agent, did all in their power to aid me. 1 am under much obligation fer their kind ness and ciylities. Thus situated, without a guide, and but one laboring man, eur num- Der is small (5even in ali l felt heavy responsibility, and no small reluctance to leading the young gentlemen with me into probable dangers and certain hafdships and lalgues, an unknown wilderness before us, and probably hostile foe to watch our ey- cry step; but the young men, 10 man, said- 'sgo on-we will follow you-we cannot turn back ald they have fully and maniuliy redeemed their pledge, having gore through many hardsiiips, much fatigue, hard iabof, hunger and thirst. cannotsay too much Tor them, nor can too much praise be awarded for their labor and conduct. Unused any labor, feared t would go hard with thein, but they never lnched-they were really to wade through mud, water and grass 10 their necks, with enr provisions upon their head5 -to swim rivers-to fell trees for bridges, and all other faigues necessary for the ac- complisiment of our object. am thus Pas- ticular, becanse feeiit due othem and their friends. Before leaving Prarie du Chen, fixed upon route ] would like to pass to the Missou i and wish compass in hand, made it within five miles of the point started for. By Burr's Map Wisconsin, embracing iowa Sc (which found more correct than any have seen,) we crossed the Turkey river al Fort Atkinson, North lat. 43 deg. b min thence we crossed the different branches oi the Wabisipinica and the Cedars ia about the same latitude to Clear Lake, II West longi- tude 8 deg. g min, thence Nofthwesterly until we came to a branch Of lhe St Peters running NorGheasteriy. l will here remark that we did not find the Cedars Or St Peier'4 branch 10 correspond with Burr's, or any map have. seen. Thence due West 10 tht ilcS hfbniSSs III -tc mn "'i" " S' lon 9j deg, which streams we crossed bJ telling trees for bridge. Thence due Wes to number of small beautiful lakes iorinin! the head waters of the Little Sioux and emp tying into ihe Missouri; thence across Floyd river; thence due West across the branche of the Calumet; then the Whitestone or Yer million; thence to Jacques river, and then th great, the grand Missouri, l5 miles below th great bend nd-mASing distance Ggom tlIe His sissippi of over 510 miles, over the fhes country upon the globe, capable of sustain
 ing three times the popalaton of the sam space in any aiher part of fine wofid--H' swamps, no marslies, no flooding oi rivers except in the vicinity of the WablsiP;o'eS and then only small distance, and undoaei ealy the mos, hcalthy country in the world | have never found aa atmosphere so pure
 the surface gently rolling to al almost level
 always, however, enough uhdulaties 70 le
 all the water of. While on this subject, will remark that none of the rivers west (