June 27th.. Wednesday—
a fair warm morning, the river rose a little last night, we
determine to delay at this Place three or four Days to make
observations & recruit the party, Several men out Hunting,
onloaded our Perogue, and turned her up to Dry with a view
of repairing her after completing a Strong redoubt or brest
work from [one] river to the other, of logs & Bushes Six feet
high, The Countrey about the mouth of this river is verry
fine on
each Side as well as North of the Missourie the
bottom, in the Point is
low & overflows for 250 yards. it
rises a little above high water mark
and continus of that hight
of good quallity back to the hills A high
Clift, on the upper
Side of the Kanses 1/2 a mile up below the Kanses the
hills
is about 1 1/2 Miles from the point on the North Side of the
Missourie the Hils or high lands is
Several Miles back, we
compared the instrumts Took equal altitudes, and
the Meridian
altitude of the Suns L. L. to day
Latitude 38° 31′–13″
Longitude [Blank space in MS.] measured the width of the
Kansas River by an angle and made it 230 yd
s. 1/4
wide,
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it is
wider above the mouth the Missourie at this place is about
500 yards
wide, The Course from the Point down the Mid
l.
of the
Missourie is S. 32° E, & turns to the North. up Do:
is N 21°
W. & do do [
i. e. turns to the North—
Ed.] Do.
up the right side of the Kansas is S. 54°
E., & the river turns
to the left, Several Deer killed to
day.
