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Monday 29th.. July 1805.

a clear pleasant morning. Several hunters went out eairly
to hunt. we conclude to lay at this Camp to day. Capt. Clark
Some better. the day verry warm the wind from the east.
the Latitude of this place is 45°, 22m, 34s. 5/10 North. the
width of the Rivers at the forks we alow the North fork to
[be] about 60 yards wide, the west fork about the Same, the
South fork about 40 yards wide. towards evening the hunters
came in had killed 2 fat buck deer, and brought in a curious
long leged redish couloured crain.