It is idle to talk of any city of Europe or Asia, situated as this is, twelve hundred miles from the sea, which can be named as its future equal.
It was now the 27th of July, and the river, which had been swollen by the Missouri flood, was rapidly falling, and almost diminished to its summer minimum.

It left a heavy deposit of mud on its immediate shores, which, as it dried in the sun, cracked into fragments, which were often a foot thick.

These cakes of dried sediment consisted chiefly of sand and sufficient aluminous matter to render the whole body of the deposit adhesive.
I was kindly received by R.Pettibone, Esq., a townsman from New York, from whom I had parted at Pittsburgh.

This gentleman had established himself in business with Col.

Eastman, and as soon as he heard of my arrival, invited me to his house, where I remained until I was ready to proceed to the mines.