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Sunday 2nd.. Sept. 1804.

a hard Storm of wind and rain last night which lasted about
2 hours, cloudy this morning we Set off eairly three men
out hunting. the hunters killed three Elk. we halted at 8

oC on the S. S. where their was an ancient fortification in the
form of a half moon it appeared that one Side had washed in
to the river. Capt. Clark took the dimentions of it. the wind
high from the North So that we were obledged to lay too at a
high prarie where we found plumbs & Grapes a pleanty.