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June 2nd Sunday 1805
We had a hard wind and a little rain last night, this morning
fair we set out at an early hour, wind from the S W.
some little rain to day wind hard a head, the countrey much
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shore, himself & the hunters killed 6 Elk & a Bear and 2
mule deer, and 2 buffalow which was all in good order, a
beaver also killed to day, passed 9 Islands to day the current
swift but regular, we camped on the Lard Side at the
forks of the river the currents & Sizes of them [the rivers]
we could not examine this evening a fair night we took
some Luner observations of moon & stears.
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N. 85° W | 3/4 | to a fiew trees on the Lard point |
S. 60°. W | 1/4 | on the Lard point opposit a bluff |
S. 40°. W. | 1/2 | to some trees in the Stard. bend |
S. 20°. E. | 1 | to some willows on the Lard. Side |
S. 30 E | 1 | to a bush on the Stard. point opsd. a low bluff. |
South | 1/4 | on the Stard. point. |
S. 45°. W. | 1/2 | to a tree in a bend on Lard. Side |
West | 2 | to a point on the Lard. Side opposd to a bluff |
S. 68°. W | 1/4 | on the Lard Side opsd. an Island |
S. 35°. W. | 1/4 | on the Lard Side |
S. 25°. W. | 1 | to a point of a timbered bottom on the Lard. Side |
South | 2 3/4 | to a point on Stard. Side opsd. a dark bluff passed 3 small Islands |
S. 60°. W. | 1 m. | on the Stard. Side passed 2 Isds. on Lard Side |
N. 80°. W. | 1 3/4 | to the Lard. point opsd. a bluff |
S. 10°. W. | 1 1/2 | to the lower point of an Island near the Stard point. |
S. 65°. W. | 2 | to a point of timber on the Lard Side opsd. a bluff passed the Isld. and one near Std Side |
S. 20°. W. | 1/2 | to the head of an Island |
South | 1/2 | to a point of timber on the Stard. Side |
S. 72°. W | 1/4 | to a point between two large rivers one 362 yards & the other 200 |
miles | 18 |
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