University of Virginia Library

June 9th. 1806.

Error of the Sextant 6′. 15—or Subtractive

   
Error of Octant by the back observation
on the distant fragment of the broken limb 
2°. 30′. 4″.5 + 
additive

[The final observation was that made on Maria River, by
Lewis, July 23, 1806, and entered both by him and Clark in
the text of the journals.—Ed.]