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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 
51 
[ILLUSTRATION]

[We now return to Clark's memorandum of events, in
Codex C.—Ed.]


7

Page 7

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.

 
[4]

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.