e. "I can see how they
all must have felt when they got here, where they could see out over the
country once more. Do you suppose it was right here that they stood?"

John was ready with his copy of the _Journal_, which now the boys all
began to prize more and more.

"Here it is," said he, "all set down in the finest story book I ever
read in all my life. Captain Lewis and Captain Clark say they

"'stroled out to the top of the hights in the fork of these rivers,
from whence we had an extensive and most inchanting view. The
country in every direction about was one vast plain in which
innumerable herds of Buffalow were seen attended by their shepperds
the wolves; the solatary antalope which now had there young were
distributed over its face, some herds of Elk were also seen; the
verdure perfectly cloathed the ground, the wether was plesent and
fair; to the South we saw a range of lofty mountains which we
supposed to be a continuation of the Snow Mountains stretching
themselves from S.E. to N.W. terminating abruptly about S.West from
us, these were partially covered with snow; behind these Mountains
and at a great distance a second and more lofty range of mountains
appeared to strech across the country in the same direction with
the others, reaching from West, to the N. of N.W.--where their
snowy tops lost themselves beneath the horizon, the last range was
perfectly covered with snow.'"

"Does it check up, boys?" Uncle Dick smiled. "I think it does, except
that our old ruins are not right where they then stood on the Missouri.
The river mouth is below here. There is a high tongue of land between
the Teton River, just over there, where it runs close along the
Missouri, two or three hundred yards away, but I hardly think that was
where they stood.

"But though the works of man have changed many times, and themselves
been changed by time, the works of God are here, as they were in June of
1805--except that the wild game is gone forever.

"Lewis or Clark could not dream that in 1812 a steamboat would go down
the Ohio and the Mississippi; nor that some day a steamboat would land
here, close to the Marias River.

"But after Lewis and Clark the fur traders poured up here. Then came the
skin hunters and their Mackinaws, following the bull boats which took
some _voyageurs_ downstream. Then the river led the trails west, and the
bull outfits followed the pack t