21st
August Tuesday 1804.—
We Set out verry early this morning
and proceeded on
under a gentle Breeze from the S. E. passed Willow Creek
Small on the S. S. below a Bluff of about 170 feet high and
one 1/2
Mls. above Floyds River at 1 1/2 Miles higher & above
the Bluff passed the Soues River S. S. this River
is about the
Size of Grand river and as Mr. Durrien
our Soues intptr. says
"is navagable to the falls 70
or 80 Leagues and above these
falls Still further, those falls are 20 feet
or there abouts and
has two princepal pitches, and heads with the St. peters [now
Minnesota River—Ed.] passing the head of the Demoin, on
the right below
the falls a Creek coms in which passes thro
Clifts of red rock which the
Indians make pipes of,[21]
and when
the different "nations meet at those
quaries all is piece." [a
sort of asylum for all
nations, no fightg there] passed a place
in a
Prarie on the L. S. where the Mahars had a Village
formerly. the Countrey
above the Platt R. has a great Similarity.
Campd. on the L. Side, Clouds appear to rise in the
West & threten wind. I found a verry excellent froot
resembling
the read Current, the Srub on which it grows resembles
Privey &
about the Common hight of a wild plumb.
Course Distance
& refs. 21st Augt.
| S. 82°
E. |
3 |
mls. to the Upper part of a
Bluff below the Soues river
on S. S. passed Willow Creek at 1 1/2 Ms. S. S. |
| South |
1
1/4 |
Ms. to Lower pt. of a
Willow Island in the Midle of
the River one on S. S. opsd.. |
| S. 48. W. |
1
3/4 |
mls. to the head of the Isld. passed Several Sand bars
dividing the Current, Wind
hard |
| West |
2 |
Ms. to a high wood on the L. S. pased a large Sand
bar from
the S. S. River Wide. |
| N. 36.
W. |
4 |
Mls. to a Beyau in a bend to
the L. S. above where
the Mahars once had a Village a Sand bar in the
Middle & S. S. |
| N. 18.
E. |
2 |
Mls. to a pt. of Willows on the L. S. wind hard
from S.
E. |
| N. 22° W. |
3/4 |
Mls. on the L. S. opsd. to which the Soues
River is
within 2 miles on the S. S. |
| S. 50.
W. |
1/4 |
Ml. on the L.
S. |
| S. 28. W. |
2 |
Mls. to a Willow pt on the S.
S. |
| S. 78 W. |
1 1/2 |
mls. on the Sand bar on S. S. |
| N. 12.
W. |
2 |
Mls. to a Willow pt. on the L. S. passed a Sand bar. |
| S.
60. W. |
1 3/4 |
ms. on the Sand bar
on the L. Side. |
| South |
2
1/2 |
miles to Some low Willows on the S.
S. |
|
24
3/4 |
|
The two men Sent with the horses has
not joined us as yet.
