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a few Antelopes, on the head of Marie's River. The greater portion of the country, after leaving the head waters of the Sacramento, is either broken up by mountains, or covered with extensive wastes of sand and volcanic desolation; and can never be inhabited, by a people much superior to the insect and and reptile eating savages, found at the present time upon some of its streams. Here we will leave, for a time, the Company from California; return to the Falls of the Willammette; and follow, from that place, the Oregon Company, until the time when the two, having accidentally met in the mountains, united.* *For the sake of uniformity of expression, “we” has been used throughout the previous pages, although it will be perceived by a reference to the introduction, that only Mr. WINTER was in California.