The country passed over beautiful in appearance. Luxuriant growth of grass & flowering plants. Poplar & birch thickets & in some places there ? ? parts have been very severely burned & where there have been much windfall & brulé. Many beautiful little lakes & ponds perhaps the majority of them formed originally by beavers which are still at work. Hay grass in damp willows often nearly upset horseís backs. Wonderfully refreshing after the monotony of the dry prairie.

Found some of Capt. Cameron's people camped in a valley about 5 miles N of our camp. They have been waiting 5 days for his return from the Mountains.

Travelled on at as rapid a pace as the nature of the ground would