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Monday 28th. July 1806.

Set out this morning at day light and proceeded on glideing
down this Smooth Stream passing maney Isld. and Several
Creeks and brooks at 6 Miles passed a Creek or brook of 80
yards wide (called by Indns [blank space in MS.] or Little Wolf
river)[53] on the N W. Side Containing but little water. 6 miles
lower passed a small Creek 20 Yds wide on the Stard. Side 18
Miles lower passed a large dry creek on the Lard. Side 5 Miles
lower passed a river 70 yards wide containing but little water on
the Lard Side which I call Table Creek from the tops of several

Mounds in the Plains to the N W. resembling a table.[54] four
miles still lower I arived at the enterance of a river 100 yards
wide back of a small island on the South Side. it contains
some Cotton wood timber and has a bold current, it 's water
like those of all other Streams which I have passed in the
Canoes are muddy. I take this river to be the one the Indians
Call the Little Big Horn river.[55] The clifts on the South Side
of the Rochejhone are Generally compd. of a yellowish Gritty
soft rock, whilest those of the N. is light coloured and much
harder in the evening I passd. Straters of Coal in the banks on
either Side those on the Stard. Bluffs was about 30 feet above the
water and in 2 vanes from 4 to 8 feet thick, in a horozontal
position. the coal contained in the Lard Bluffs is in Several
vaines of different hights and thickness, this coal or carbonated
wood is like that of the Missouri of an inferior quallity. passed
a large Creek on the Stard. Side between the 1st. and 2nd. Coal
Bluffs passed several Brooks the chanel of them were wide
and contained but little running water, and encamped on the
upper point of a Small island opposit the enterance of a Creek
25 Yards wide (Inds Call Ma-shas-kap riv.) on the Stard. Side
with water.

Courses distance and Remarks July 28th. 1806.

                                                           

	Miles
N.65°. W. 1/2 to a Lard. Bend	1/2
S.45°. E. to the island at the enterance of a small sluice	1 1/2
East to the lower point of the island	1 1/2
N.80°. E. to the Lard. Bend passed the upper point of an island	1.
N.40°. W. to the Lard. Side. passed the enterance of a river partly dry 80 yards wide on the Lard Side little wolf River .	2 1/2
S.35°. E. to a Stard. Bend passed an island	2.
N.52°. E. to the Larboard Side	1 1/2
S.64°. E. to the Starboard Side	1.
N.40°. E. to the Lard Side passed a Creek. 30 yards wide on the Starboard Side but little water in it	1 1/4
East to the Stard. Side	1.
North to the Lard Side	3/4
N.35°. E. to a Stard. Bend opposit to an island	2 1/2
N.20°. W. to a yellow bluff on the Lard. Side	1/2
N.60°. E. to a low prarie in a Lard. Bend	2.
South. to a high bluff below a Brook. low open bottom on Std.	3.
S.45°. E. to a Stard. point below a cliff. of yellowish Stone opsd. to an island. Some remarkable mounds in the plains on Lard Side	2 1/2
S.70°. E. to the upper point of an island in the Stard. Bend high bluffs on the Stard Side	3 1/2
N.45°. E. to the enterance of Table Brook 30 Yds wide on the Lard Side nearly dry	2.
East to a Stard. Bluff passed 3 islands and Table river on the Lard. Side 70 yards wide some water	7
S.86°. E. to the enterance of Little Horn river from the S.S.E. 100 yards wide with a considerable portion of running water. Scattering timber on its borders a Small Island opposit its enterance. water Muddy	2.
N.55°. E. to the Centr. of a Std. Bend passd. a brook on Std at 3 Miles	4 1/2
N.45°. E. to the Center of a Lard. Bend	5 1/2
S.45°. E. to the lower part of a Bluff in which there is 2 Stratias of Stone Coal on Std Side. passed a Creek on Lard	1 1/2
East to a high Coal Bluff on the Stard. Side passed a largest Creek at 6 Miles on the Stard. Side & 2 Islds	8.
N.60°. E. to a cluster of large trees in the Stard. Bend. passed 5 islands and several bars	4 1/2
N.10.°. W. to a Lard. Bluff a vein of Coal in this bluff about 30 feet above the water. bottoms low on the Stard	1 1/2
N.73°. E. to a coal point of the Lard Bluff in which there is 5 Stratias of coal at different nights all Horozontal. an island close to the Lard. Side the river haveing made a deep bend to the Stard Side	6.
S.75°. E. to the enterance of a Brook in the Stard bend behind an island. passed an island close to the Lard. Shore. encamped on the small Isld	2
Miles	73.

The Elk on the banks of the river were so abundant that we
have not been out of sight of them to day. J Shields killed 2
deer & Labeech killed an Antilope to day. the antilopes and
deer are not Abundant. Beaver plenty