| | 1 | Author: | Gass
Patrick
1771-1870 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, Under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke, of the Army of the United States, from the Mouth of the River Missouri Through the Interior Parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean, During the Years 1804, 1805 and 1806  | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Lewis and Clark collection | UVA-LIB-LewisClark | University of Virginia Library, Westward Exploration collection | UVA-LIB-WestwardExplor | | | | Description: | ON Monday the 14th of May 1804, we left
our establishment at the mouth of the river de Bois
or Wood river, a small river which falls into the
Mississippi, on the east side, a mile below the Missouri,
and having crossed the Mississippi proceeded
up the Missouri on our intended voyage of discovery,
under the command of Captain Clarke. Captain
Lewis was to join us in two or three days on our
passage.**The confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
is in latitude about 38 degrees and 40 minutes
north, and in longitude 92 degrees and a half west of
London, or 17 and a third west of Philadelphia. The
town of St. Louis is 14 miles below the mouth of the
Missouri on the west side of the Mississippi; and Cahokia
about 4 or 5 miles lower on the east side. The
longitude of these places is nearly the same with that of
the mouth of the river St. Louis at the west end of lake
Superior in 46 degrees 45 minutes north latitude; about
2 degrees west of New Orleans in latitude 30 degrees
north, and the same number of degrees east of the
most western point of Hudson's Bay, in latitude about
59 degrees north: So that a line drawn from New Orleans
to Fort Churchill, at the mouth of Churchill river
on the west side of Hudson's Bay, would pass very
near the mouth of the Missouri and the west end
of lake Superior. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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