June 4th Monday 1804—
a fair day three men out on the right flank passed a large
Island on the.St. Side called Seeder Island, this
Isd. has a great
Deel of Ceeder on it, passed a Small
Creek at 1 ml. 15 yd.
Wide which
we named Nightingale Creek from a Bird of that
discription which Sang for
us all last night, and is the first
of the Kind I ever heard.
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passed the mouth
of Seeder Creek
at 7 M
s. on the S. S. ab
t. 20 yd
s. Wide above Some Small
Is
ds passed a Creek on the L. S. ab
t. 15 yd
s. wide,
Mast [
Mast]
Creek, here the Serj
t. at the
helm run under a bending Tree
& broke the Mast, Some delightfull Land,
with a jentle
assent about this Creek, well timbered, Oake, Ash, Walnut
&c. &c. passed, wind N W. by W. passed a small creek
called
Zancare C on the L. S: at this last point I got out
and walked on the L.
S.
d thro a rush bottom for 1 Mile & a
Short
Distance thro: Nettles as high as my brest assended a
hill of about 170
foot to a place where the french report that
Lead ore has been found, I
saw no Mineral of that description.
Cap Lewis camped imediately under this
hill,
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to
wate which
gave me Some time to examine the hill, on the top is a
mound of about 6 foot high, and about 100 acres of land which
the
large timber is Dead in Decending about 50 foot a projecting
lime stone rock under Which is a Cave
at one place
in this projecting rocks I went on one which spured up and
hung over the water from the top of this rock I had a prospect
of the river for 20 or 30 m
s. up, from the Cave which
incumpased the hill I decended
by a Steep decent to the foot,
a verry bad part of the river opposit this
hill, the river continus
to fall Slowly, our
hunters killed 7 Deer to day The
land our hunters passed thro: to day on
the S. S. was verry
fine the latter part of to day. the high land on the
S. S. is
about 2
d. rate
Course & Distance 4th.. June
N. 30° - W. |
4 |
Ms. to a pt. on S. Sd.
psd. a C. & 2 Isd. |
N. 25° -
W. |
3 |
Ms. to a pt. on S. Sd. psd. Seeder
C. |
N. 58 W. |
7 1/2 |
M.s. to pt. on L. S. a Creek on L.
S. |
N. 75. W. |
3 |
Ms. to a pt. on S. Sd.
opsd. Mine Hill |
|
17
1/2 |
|