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[Clark:]
The Course from the Fort Mandan to the
Fort Chaboillez's
on the Assinna Boin is North 150
Miles
mls | |
Mirey creek | 12 & Big C. of wood 16 to the E to a lake |
Mous river 30 yd wide |
50 to the river La sou[rie] 4 L |
and | 20 Legues to a Small creek of the Mous R |
& | 3 d° to the next |
& | 1 League cross the Lasou or M.[ouse] |
& | 20 L
cross the Ditto to the R Pass Turtle Hites at 6 L. |
27 to Assinnibon | |
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[We now return to Clark's memorandum of events, in
Codex C.—Ed.]
3rd.
Mr. Garrous[4]
Boat loaded with provisions pass up for Prarie
du chien, to trade
18th.
at St. Louis
The Country about the Mouth
of Missouri is pleasent rich
and partially Settled On the East Side of the
Mississippi a
leavel rich bottom extends back about 3 miles, and rises by
several elevations to the high Country, which is thinly timbered
with Oakes & On the lower Side of the Missouri, at about
2 miles
back the Country rises graduilly, to a high plesent
thinly timberd
Country, the lands are generally fine on the
River bottoms and well
calculating for farming on the upper
Country
in the point the
Bottom is extensive and emensly rich for
15 or 20 miles up each river, and
about 2/3 of which is open
leavel plains in which the inhabtents of St. Charles & portage
de Scioux had ther crops of corn
& wheat. on the upland is
a fine farming country partially timbered
for Some distance
back.
Little is known of this Garreau, save that it is probably his
son Pierre (whose
mother was an Arikara woman) who was long an interpreter
at Fort Berthold; see
Coues's Narrative of
Larpenteur (N. Y., 1898), i, pp. 125, 126. Clark's Garreau
may be the
Jearreau (of Cahokia, Ill.) mentioned by Pike in 1806; see Coues's
Expeditions of Pike (N. Y., 1895), i, p. 263.—Ed.
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