As far as we could discern its course, it wound through a charming valley towards the southeast, in which many herds of buffalo were feeding, till, at the distance of twenty-five miles, it entered the Rocky Mountains and was lost from our view.

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"We find the prickly pear, one of the greatest beauties as well as greatest inconveniences of the plains, now in full bloom.

The sunflower, too, a plant common on every part of the Missouri from its entrance to this place, is here very abundant, and in bloom.