An inferior species succeeds, and continues from August to December.

It is remarkable for having a double row of teeth, half an inch long and extremely sharp, from whence it has received the name of the dog-toothed salmon.

It is generally killed with the spear in small rivulets, and smoked for winter provision.

We have noticed in a former chapter the mode in which the salmon are taken and cured at the falls of the Columbia; and put tip in parcels for exportation.

From these different fisheries of the river tribes, the establishment at Astoria had to derive much of its precarious supplies of provisions.
A year's residence at the mouth of the Columbia, and various expeditions in the interior, had now given the Astorians some idea of the country.
The whole coast is described as remarkably rugged and mountainous; with dense forests of hemlock, spruce, white and red cedar, cotton-wood, white oak, white and swamp ash, willow, and a few walnut.