17 We drove to soon the road divided
one going to the other to we watered at
Willow Springs I was quite unwell with the cholic for
some two hours we took breakfast at willow springs
and filled our cask with water. We then drove many
miles across a terrible Desert Bated at Noon on a little
grass on the sand hills we drove to Moyncoppy and
found it located on a sand Hill I here Met with and his wife we were glad to Meet
I found them in a tent whare I spent the night 25 M[iles]
The country from is the most
Peculiar Country I ever visited for some 20 miles
it is one continous desert of rock, mounds, sand hills
gravel beds &c. Many tons of rocks look as though they
were hewn square like timber some were 20 feet long and
from 12 to 18 inches square and all shapes & sizes. there
hills of thin slate But in a decayed state rocks in Evry
shape of men, women, Palaces &c but a general desolation
untill we come to the Bottom land South of
which contains shrubery of various kinds and some wheat
grass. We saw one larg field of wheat. I spent the Evening
talking with and the Ind-
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