Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 ::

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents

Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809)

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Set out at 6 A. M. steered

N. 75 E.	3 1/2 M.	Passed a stout C[reek] N. Side at 12 1/2 M. another just above saw an old Indian encampment of 11 lodges of bark and [word illegible] on S. side at 3 1/2 M. killed a deer.
N. 25. E.	12 M.	passing a small creek at one M on S. side. on which there is a handsom and extensive Valley and plain for 10 or 12 Ms also another creek 12 yds. wide at 1/2 a mile further on N. side, and another 8 yds. wide on N. side at 5 Ms. further one [and] 1/2 M. short of the extremity of this course arrive at a high prarie on N. side from one to three miles in width extending up the river. halted and dined in the mouth of a little drane on the left of the plain where there was a considerable quantity of quawmash. saw a gang of antelopes here of which we killed one the does at this season herd with each other and have their young. the bucks are alone there are many wild horses on Clarkes river about the place we passed it we saw some of them at a distance, there are said to be many of them about the head of the Yellowstone river.
East	6 M.	to the entrance of Werner's Creek[7] 35 yds. wide through a high extensive prairie on N. side, hills low and timbered with the long leafed pine, larch, and some fir. the road passes at some distance to the left of the river and this cou[r]ses is with the river.

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N. 22 W.	4 Miles	to a high insulated knob just above the entrance of a Creek 8 yards wide which discharges itself into Werners Creek.
N. 75 E.	2 1/2 M.	to the river passing through anextensive and handsom plain on Werner's Creek, crossing that creek at 1 M. and leaving a high prarie hills to the right seperating the plain from the river. saw two swan in this beautiful Creek.
East	3 M.	to the entrance of a large creek 20 yds. wide Called Seamans' Creek passing a creek at 1 m. 8 yds. wide. this course with the river, the road passing through an extensive high prarie rendered very uneven by a vast number of little hillucks and sink-holes. at the heads of these two creeks high broken mountains stand at the distance of
	10 M.	forming a kind of Cove generally of open untimbered country, we encamped on the lower side of the last creek just above it's entrance, here a war party had encamped about 2 months since and conceald their fires.
	31 M.

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Named for Private Werner, who accompanied Lewis; on the Land Office Maps
it is now called Clearwater River.—Ed.

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