Robert Dale, Mr Richard Dale's First Excursion to Trace the Helena River… (1833)
“ Bivouaced by the side of a small stream, at twenty minutes to 4 o’clock, running W.—Fifteen miles extent of the first day’s journey. Oct. 16th.—Recommenced our journey at 7 o’clock, a.m., and in half an hour came to a valley with a broad brook running through it to the W.N.W.; the soil on its banks being very rich and fertile, proceeded about two miles up it, when we crossed it over a fallen tree, and took a S.E. direction over a high hill on account of the banks becoming steep ”
