This possible way of approach, however, comprises not more than one tenth of the circumference of the hill. At all other places, no man or animal can ascend or descend. Any time the Indians could scare a few buffalo onto this hill, they could prevent them from taking the back track and there was no place for them to go except to try a jump and light upon the rocks fifty to one hundred and fifty feet helow.

The legend is that the first white man to settle here, was one McCullingan. Certain it is, that a canyon about four miles south of I Ishkosh is -lill called McCulligan's canyon and

there may be seen the remains of a stone fire place cut into the rock.

Ash Hollow is one of the few places along the river, where one can drive down from the south tableland to the river botton with a wagon; and in early times, it was the only feasible place of ascent and descent. Ash Hollow at its lower end is a. wide, sand draw can- \on; this soon begins to become narrower, "iinber and brush appear in abundance. The way becomes tortuous, and rocky, but without any particularly steep ascent in any place, we arrive on the level tableland nearly three hundred feet above the river bottom.

The canyon is said to have been a dangerous place to pass through in early times because of hostile Indians. The first settlers found several graves at the lower end of the hollow, upon one of which was a board marker, with the inscription Rachel Pattison, died 1849. This grave is now marked by a stone slab and there is an Oregon Trail marker there.