who had a large family, and one Daughter
whose activity in hunting was nearly
equal to that of an Indian, killing Elk
Deer, and Bears in great numbers --
Breakfasted here and rode down the
Creek about 18 miles to the next
Settlement - the way very difficult to get
along in many places - the creek on all
sides Bounded by high towering mountains whose
craggy lofty tops surpasseth all description -
In some places I suppos'd them to be 500 feet
high, cover'd with such stupendous piles
of Rocks as renderd all approach inac-
cessible, and some of the tops projected over
so much that the sun shineing in
the Front in the afternoon of the day
made a shadow a considerable ways down
the Side -- On the summit of one of these
Rocks I saw a large white animal sitting
which appeard to be of the fowl kind --
what it was I could not tell, but the
wild romantic prospect of the place
exceeded any thing of the kind I had ever
ever before seen, and probably had never been
trodden by the foot of man --