A flock of pelicans, and two or three brown fishing eagles, were fishing in its agitated waters, seemingly with great success.

There is a good sturgeon fishery at the foot of the rapid.

Several golden plovers, Canadian grosbeaks, cross-bills, wood-peckers, and pin-tailed grouse, were shot to-day; and Mr.Back killed a small striped marmot.

This beautiful little animal was busily employed in carrying in its distended pouches the seeds of the American vetch to its winter hoards.
The portage is eighteen hundred yards long, and its western extremity was found to be in 53 deg.

08' 25" North latitude, and 99 deg.