Sunday 1st. of August 1806.
We set out early as usial the wind was high and ahead
which caused the water to be a little rough and delayed us
very much aded to this we had showers of rain repeatedly all
day at the intermition of only a fiew minits between them.
this rendered My situation a very disagreeable one. in an
open canoe wet and without a possibility of keeping my self
dry. the country through which we passed is in every respect
like that through which I passed yesterday. The brooks have
all some water in them from the rains which has fallen. this
water is excessively muddy. Several of those brooks have
some trees on their borders as far as I can see up them. I
observe some low pine an[d] cedar on the sides of the rugid
hills on the Stard. Side, and Some ash timber in the high bottoms.
the river has more Sand bars today than usial, and
more soft mud. the current less rapid. at 2 P. M. I was
obliged to land to let the Buffalow cross over. not withstanding
an island of half a mile in width over which this gangue of
Buffalow had to pass and the chanel of the river on each side
nearly 1/4 of a mile in width, this gangue of Buffalow was entirely
across and as thick as they could swim. the chanel on
the side of the island the[y] went into the river was crouded
with those animals for 1/2 an hour. (I was obliged to lay to for
one hour) the other Side of the island for more than 3/4 of an
hour. I took 4 of the men and killed 4 fat cows for their fat
and what portion of their flesh the small canoes could carry,
that which we had killed a few days ago being nearly spoiled
from the wet weather. encamped on an Island close to the
Lard. Shore. two gangues of Buffalow crossed a little below us,
as noumerous as the first.
Course Distance and Remarks Augt. 1st. 1806
|
M |
N.45. E. to a single tree below a large brook in a Stard. Bend
opposit to the head of an island |
2 1/2 |
North to the head of an island. passed 2 islands, also a
large Brook on the Lard. Side |
5. |
| N.45°. E. to a tree on the Stard. Shore, passed a Brook Std |
1 1/2 |
N.45°. W. to the lower point of an island close to the Lard Side.
passed an island close to the Stard. Side |
2 1/2 |
| N.40°. E. to a Stard. Bend passed an island |
2 1/2 |
| N.15°. E. to the Lard. point |
3. |
| North to a wood on the Stard. Side passd. a small island |
1 1/2 |
| N24°. W. to some timber on the Lard Side |
2. |
| N.20°. E. to the head of an island |
1. |
| N.10°.E. to a Bluff on the Lard Side |
1. |
| N.46°. E. to a wood on the Lard Side |
1 1/2 |
| North to a wood on the Lard Side |
2. |
| N.80°. E. to a wood on the Stard Side |
1 1/2 |
N.50°. W. to a deep bend on the Lard Side passed a Coal Bluff
for 1/2 a mile on the Stard Side low and leavel |
1 1/2 |
| N.40°. E. to the center of a Lard. Bend |
1. |
| S.50°. E. to a wood in a Stard Bend [psd. Buffalow Crossing] . |
1. |
| N.28°. E. to the head of an island near the Stard Side |
1 1/2 |
| N.10°. E. to the enterance of a dry creek on the Lard. Side |
1. |
| N.70°. E. to the lower point of a wood in the Stard Bend |
2. |
N.20°. E. to a Lard point opposit to a high bluff passed an
island |
6 |
| North to the center of a Stard. Bend opposit to an island . |
1 1/2 |
N.50°. E. to the enterance of a Small brook on Stard Side
passed Several sand bars & opposit to an Isld |
2 |
| Miles |
45 |
