9th.. of April Tuesday 1805.—
Set out this morning verry early under a gentle breeze from
the S.E. at Brackfast
the Indian deturmined to return to his
nation. I saw a Musquetor to day
great numbers of Brant
flying up the river, the Maple, & Elm has buded
& cotton
and arrow wood beginning to bud. I saw in the prarie an
animal resembling the Prarie dog or Barking Squirel & burrow
in the same way, this animal was about 1/3 as
large as the
barking Squirel. But fiew resident birds or water fowls which
I have Seen as yet at 6 miles passed an old hunting camp of
Menitarres on the S. S. 2 1/2 miles higher passed the mouth
of Miry
Creek on the S.S. passed a hunting camp of Menetarees
on the S.S. waiting the return of the
Antilope, Saw
Great numbers of Gees feedin in the Praries on the young
grass, I saw flowers in the praries to day, juniper grows on
the
Sides-of the hills, & runs on the ground all the hills
have more or
Less indefferent coal in stratas at different hites
from the waters edge
to 80 feet. those stratias from 1 inch to
5 feet thick we campd. on the S.S. above some rocks makeing
out in the river
in a butifull ellivated plain.
Course distance
& refferences for the 9th.
N.
20°. W. 1 |
|
mile on the S. pt. opsd. a Bluff |
N—
|
1/2 |
a mile on the S. pt.
d°. |
N. 80°. E |
1
1/2 |
miles to a sand pt. on the
L.S. |
N.— |
1/2 |
a mile
to the L. pt. |
N. 18°.
W. |
1 |
mile to a handsom elivated plain on
L.S. |
N. 22°. E |
1
1/2 |
miles to a pt. of willows on the L.S.
opposit a Wintering
camp of the
Minitarrees. |
N. 20°. W. |
2
1/4 |
miles to the mouth of Miry Creek, pass'd a hill call[ed]
Snake house & a small run
S.S. |
West |
1 |
mile to a pt. on the Larboard side |
S. 75°.
W. |
4 |
miles to a pt. on the S.S.
opsd. a Bluff and a camp of
Miniterras. |
N. 65°.
W. |
3 |
miles to the upper part of the timber
S.S. |
S. 45°. W. |
2 |
miles
to a pt. of timber on the L.S. |
S.
30. W. |
1 1/4 |
miles to a Sand pt.
on the S.S. |
S. 78°. W. |
4 |
miles to a pt. of wood
on the L.S. |
|
23
1/2 |
|