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Sunday August 3. To 7 miles S.Fork Leeds
We left our camp and descend
a sharp drift to the valley of Bees
River. Left some provision (2 lots)
of mackague River and this evening
we could travel for about 7 miles,
following a trail which had been
adapted from an old
track which crosses the Bahn
Camp to the Buckey Valley.
In the afternoon, having so far
travelled 7 miles we camped
at a good piece for its horns.
We saw a golden eagle on the
cliff near camp. I spring on
which had affixed, but yet
down on a ledge about
14 feet below the nest after
examining it. I came down
by him as to seemed
concerned to play. I pushed
him gently till my gain went
and he launched out on
the boulder and dropped
down the valley.
The nest was evidently an old one
and was built on a wall shelf,
placed on it were the remains
of many rabbits, and groundhog,
a goolaint, a marten, blue
grasse. The cliffs held many
nest of woodpeckers.
Cryptogramme acrostrichus
from commanding on the rocks