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[Clark:]
23rd.. of April 1805
A cold morning at about 9 oClock the wind as usial rose
from the N W and continued to blow verry hard untill late in
the evening I walked on Shore after brackfast in my walk
on the S Side passed
through extensive bottoms of timber intersperced
with glades & low open plains, I killed 3 mule or
black tail
Deer, which was in tolerable order, Saw Several
others, I also killed a
Buffalow calf which was verry fine, I
struck the river above the Perogus
which had come too in a
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violently hard, I joined Capt Lewis in the evening & after
the winds falling which was late in the evening we proceeded
on & encamped on the S.S. The winds of this countrey which
blow with some violence almost every day, has become a serious
obstruction in our progression onward, as we cant move when
the wind is high with[out] great risque, and [if] there was no
risque the winds is generally a head and often too violent to
proceed
S. 25° E | 2 1/2 | miles to a point of timbered land on the Starboard Side |
South | 1 | mile on the Sd point, of wood land a high Bluff opposit. |
S. 78°. W. | 4 | miles to a copse of woods under a hill to the
Sd. Side in a bend |
S. 14°. E. | 4 1/2 | miles to a point of high timber in a
larboard bend, passing the enterence of a little bay to S.S. |
S. 25°. W. | 1 1/2 | miles to a point of woods on the Ld. Side |
miles | 13 1/2 |
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