Portland[1] took it on up the river and by it we received your letter of the 12th August, so you see I was just in time with this.
We cannot conceive how you get the idea that Milwaukie is at the mouth of the Willamette, for I was shure I had told you better. It is six miles above Portland, and Portland is 12 miles above the mouth, Oswego is the next town above, then Willamette Citty[2] with 6 large houses and no inhabitance both on the west side of the river, this place is on the east side, Oregon Citty is on this side also, and is 7 miles above, and Lyn Citty[3] opposite, I borrowed two maps of Capt. Whitcomb today for the purpos of drawing a map for you, which I will try to get ready by next mail. One is a map of Oregon & Washington, the other a map of the surveyed part of Oregon.
I have got the Ague and must quit, and finish in the morning. The Sal-lal Berries is a large, dark blue berry, somewhat resembling the wherttleberries, but as large as four of the latter, grows in clusters like grapes, and are rather sweet in tast, very pleasant, the bush they grow on is an evergreen. They grow much larger on the coast than up here. They have an oblong shape,
The way of raising produce does not differ materially from the method adopted in the states some people sow their Cabbage, Onions, Peas &c in the fall, or in the months of Feb. & March.
There is an abundance of springs all over the country and
- ↑ A sidewheeler, launched July 2, 1853, for the Oregon City run; continued on this route, with occasional trips to Astoria, until October, 1856, when she was taken above the falls and ran on the upper river; on March 17, 1857, she was swept over the falls at Oregon City; Lewis and Dryden, 44, 67.
- ↑ The following advertisement appears in the Oregonian, December 4, 1850: "Willamette.—The subscribers, proprietors of this Town, situated at the foot of the Clackamas Rapids, on the west side of the Willamette River, having just completed a survey and plan of the place, would call the attention of the public to this location, as one of importance, and possessing undoubted natural advantages as a point for business ... With the prospect of having a Plank Road, or a Rail Road to go by horses to the head of the Falls, they feel confident that persons wishing to take an interest will not be disappointed in its ultimate success. ..."
- ↑ Linn City was founded by Robert Moore, opposite Oregon City, and named in honor of Senator Lewis F. Linn of Missouri. It was destroyed in the flood of 1861; Scott, Oregon Country, II, 76, 231.
