thus diluted:  at other times they add a sufficient proportion of marrow grease to reduce it to the consistency of common dough and eat it in that manner.  This last composition we preferred to all the rest, and thought it at that time a very palatable dish.  There is however little of the broad-leafed cottonwood on this side of the falls, much the greater part of what we see being of the narrow-leafed species.  There are also great quantities of red, purple, yellow and black currants.  The currants are very pleasant to the taste, and much preferable to those of our common garden.  The bush rises to the height of six or eight feet; the stem simple, branching and erect.  These shrubs associate in corps either in upper or timbered lands near the water courses.  The leaf is peteolate, of a pale green, and in form resembles the red currant so common in our gardens.  The perianth of the fruit is one leaved, five cleft, abbriviated and tubular.  The corolla is monopetallous, funnel-shaped, very long, and of a fine orange colour.  There are five stamens and one pistillum of the first, the filaments are capillar, inserted in the corolla, equal and converging, the anther ovate and incumbent.  The germ of the second species is round, smooth, inferior and pidicelled:  the style long and thicker than the stamens, simple, cylindrical, smooth and erect.  It remains with the corolla until the fruit is ripe, the stamen is simple and obtuse, and the fruit much the size and shape of our common garden currants, growing like them in clusters supported by a compound footstalk.  The peduncles are longer in this species, and the berries are more scattered.  The fruit is not so acid as the common currant, and has a more agreeable flavour.

The other species differs in no respect from the yellow currant excepting in the colour and flavour of the berries.

The serviceberry differs in some points from that of the United States.  The bushes are small, sometimes not more than two feet high, and rarely exceed eight inches.  They are proportionably small in their stems, growing very thickly, associated in clumps.  The fruit is of the same form, but for the most part larger and of a very dark purple.  They are now ripe and in great perfection.  There are two species of gooseberry here, but neither of them yet ripe:  nor are the chokecherry, though in great quantities.  Besides there are also at that place the box alder, red willow and a species of sumach.  In the evening we saw some mountain rams or big-horned animals, but no other game of any sort.  After leaving Pine island we passed a small run on the left, which is formed by a large spring rising at the distance of half a mile under the mountain.  One mile and a half above the island is another, and two miles further a third island, the river making small bends constantly to the north.  From this last island to a point of rocks on the south side the low grounds become rather wider, and three quarters of a mile beyond these rocks, in a bend on the north, we encamped opposite to a very high cliff, having made during the day eleven and a half miles.