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[14] See Plate 67, figure 1, in the accompanying atlas, our volume xxv.—Ed.
[15] For Ross Cox, see Franchère's Narrative, in volume vi of our series, p. 276, note 84.—Ed.
[16] Now Big Muddy River, the first large northern affluent of the Missouri west of the Yellowstone. It rises on the borders of Assiniboia, flows nearly a southern course, and forms the eastern boundary of Fort Peck Indian reservation.—Ed.
[17] The variable hare of the Upper Missouri appears to be the Lepus Virginianus of Warden. I lost all my fine specimens, and therefore cannot compare this species with those in Europe.—Maximilian.
[18] See Plate 68, figures 12, 17, in the accompanying atlas, our volume xxv.—Ed.
[19] Lewis and Clark so named this stream from the unusual number of porcupines seen near its mouth. The present Porcupine River is a branch of the Milk. The stream here so designated is now Poplar River, whose several branches have their rise on the southern border of Assiniboia; it flows nearly south into the Missouri, through Fort Peck Indian reservation. The station of Poplar, on the Great Northern Railway, is near its mouth.—Ed.
[20] Deschamps was probably one of the family of half-breeds who were later (1835) murdered at Fort Union. See Larpenteur's Journal, i, pp. 77, 78, 95-101; also note 124, post, p. 151.—Ed.
[21] Probably Red Water Creek, just above Poplar River, but on the south, not north, side of the Missouri. In the Original Journals, both Lewis and Clark speak of this creek as on the "larboard side." There is some reason to think that Maximilian was mistaken in his identification of these three rivers of Lewis and Clark—Martha's, Porcupine, and Two Thousand Mile Creek. The one called by him Martha's, or La Rivière aux Trembles, was probably the present Poplar, which would correspond to the French-Canadian name; but this was not the river named Martha's by Lewis and Clark (see ante, note 16). Maximilian speaks of Porcupine River as a "small stream," while in reality it was the largest river passed above the Yellowstone, and Lewis and Clark considered it as a possible line of communication with the Saskatchewan. Maximilian's "Porcupine" would thus be either Tulle Creek, or some of the smaller northern affluents of this stretch of the river, which would also account for his misplacing Two Thousand Mile Creek.—Ed.
[22] See Plate 21, in the accompanying atlas, our volume xxv.—Ed.