Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Fowga and caught a Microw
sarthropnthus in my hands. He
was among the rocks at the foot
of a limestone bluff.
We camped near the Middle
Rapid and set out some
traps for two years & mcreels. Saw
August 16 Took no mice but
Caught two male stragels.
Ascended the middle & Doda
Rapids. Collected some skulls
at some Cabs, above the
latter Rapid. High banks of
the Grand Rapids Sandstone
occur.
Camped at night just before
a heavy storm broke upon
me.
August 17. Proceeded on and
about 4 o'clock reached the
Brule Rapid which we ascended
The day was cold and windy
Shot a sparrow hawk. We camp-
ed at night a short distance
above the Brule Rapid.
and set out some traps
Aug. 18 We took no specimens
in our traps, and remained
in camp all day, it being Friday.
One of the crew shot a moose
a few miles away. We
labelled the skulls which
we had collected.
Aug. 19 Started about 7 A.M. and
about noon passed Little Buffalo
River, at the mouth of which a
great quantity of gas escapes.
We camped at night about 8
miles below Grand Rapids.
The Grand Rapids Sandstone
is exposed almost all the
way between the Brule Rapid
and Grand Rapids.
August 20. Reached Grand Rapids
about the middle of the afternoon
where all the loads except the
passengers baggage was portaged
and the boats hauled up.
The stuff was mostly carried
up and two of the boats
hauled up by dark. We camp-
ed at the foot of the rapids.