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from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents |
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Chapter II Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | ||
6th.. August, Monday 1804—
At twelve oClock last nigh[t] a
violent Storm of wind from
the N. W. Some rain, one pr
of colours lost in the Storm
from the bige Perogue. Set out early and
proceeded on passed
a large Island on the S. S. back of this Isd. Soldiers River
Mouths, I am told by one of the men that
this river is about
the size of Nadawa river 40
yards wide at the mouth. Reed
has not yet come up. neither has La Liberty
the frenchman
whome we Sent to the Indian Camps a fiew miles below the
Council Bluffs.
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N. 30° E. | 1 | Ml. to a Pt. on L. S. opposit the mouth of Soldiers River S. S. |
N. 15° E. | 3 1/2 | Ms. to a pt. in a bend to the S. S. below a
chan1 of the river laterly filled up passed a Sand bar. from the L. pt. |
West | 2 1/2 | Ms. to a willow pt. on
the L. S. passed a Sand bar makeing out from the from the L. pt. |
S. 50° W. | 3 1/2 | Ms. to a pt. of willows
on the S. S. the high land within 3 miles of the river on the L. S. |
N. 10 W. | 1/2 | Ml. on the S. pt. a Sand bar in R. |
N. 18° E. | 3 | Ms. passing over a Sand bar on the L. S. to a pt. on the Same side of the Missourie. |
North | 1 1/2 | Ms to a pt. on the S. S. |
N. 18 W. | 1/2 | Ml. on the Sand from the Pt. |
East | 3 | Ml. to a pt. of willows on L. pt passed a place where the snags were thick |
N. 16° E. | 1 1/2 | Ms to a pt on the S. S.
and a place where the river formerly run leaving ponds in its old Channels S. S. |
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