22nd
August Friday 1804.—
Set out early wind from the South at
three miles we
landed at a Bluff where the two men Sent with the horses
were waiting with two Deer, by examonation this (I) Bluff
Contained
Alum, Copperas, Cobalt, Pyrites; a Alum Rock
Soft & Sand Stone. Capt.
Lewis in proveing the quality of
those minerals was Near poisoning himself
by the fumes &
tast of the Cobalt which had the
appearance of Soft Isonglass.
Copperas & alum is verry pisen,[22]
Above this Bluff
a Small
Creek coms in from the L. S.
passing under the Clift for Several
Miles, this
Creek I Call Roloje a name I learned last
night is M[ ]s (2) Seven Miles
above is a Clift of Allom
Stone of a Dark Brown Col
r.
Containing also incrusted in the
crevices & shelves of the rock great
qt
s. of Cobalt, Semented
Shels & a red earth. from
this the (3) river bends to the East
and is within 3 or 4 miles of the
River Soues at the place where
that river Coms from the high land into the
Low Prairie &
passes under the foot of those Hills to its
Mouth.
Capt. Lewis took a Dost of Salts to work off the effects of
the arsenic, we camped on the S. S.[23]
Sailed the
greater part
of this day with a hard wind from the S. E. Great deel of
Elk Sign, and great appearance of wind from the N. W.
Course Distance & refr. 22nd Augt.
| S. 47°
W. |
1 1/4 |
Mls. on the S.
point |
| West |
1 1/4 |
Mls. to the lower point of a Bluff on the L. S.
(1) |
| N. 18. W. |
2 1/2 |
Mls. to a pt. of high wood on the L. S.
passd a
Creek (2) |
| N. 56.
W. |
5 1/2 |
Mls. to a Clift on the L.
S. opsd a pt. pass'd a Sand
bar on
both sides of the river (3) |
| N. 54.
E. |
2 |
Mls. to a pt. of Sand on the L. S. opsd the R. Soues
is near the Missourie (4) |
| N. 48.
W. |
6 1/2 |
Mls. to a Tree in the
Prarie on the S. S. psd. a pt. of
Sand on the S. S. 2
Sand bars in the middle of
the
river. |
|
19 |
|
ordered a Vote for a Serjeant to chuse one of three which
may be the
highest number. the highest numbers are P. Gass
had 19 votes, Bratten[24]
&
Gibson.
