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14th. Sept. Friday 1804.—

Set out early proceeded on Passed several Sand bars the
river wide and Shallow. 3 beaver caught last night, Drizeley
rain in the forepart of the day, Cloudy and disagreeable. I

walked on Shore with a view to find an old Vulcanoe, Said
to be in this neighbourhood by Mr. J. McKey of St. Charles.
I walked on Shore the whole day without Seeing any appearance
of the Vulcanoe, in my walk I Killed a Buck Goat
[antelope—Ed.] of this Countrey, about the hight of the
Grown Deer, its body Shorter the Horns which is not very
hard and forks 2/3 up one prong Short the other round &
Sharp arched, and is imediately above its Eyes the Colour is
a light gray with black behind its ears down its neck, and its
face white round its neck, its Sides and its rump round its tail
which is Short & white: Verry actively made, has only a
pair of hoofs to each foot, his brains on the back of his head,
his Norstrals large, his eyes like a Sheep he is more like the
Antilope or Gazella of Africa than any other Species of Goat.
Shields killed a Hare like the mountain hare of Europe, waighing
6 1/4 pounds (altho pore) his head narrow, its ears large i, e.
6 Inches long & 3 Inches Wide one half of each White, the
other & out part a lead Grey from the toe of the hind foot
to toe of the for foot is 2 feet 11 Inches, the hith is 1 foot 1
Inch & 3/4, his tail long thick & white.[26]

The rain Continued the Greater part of the day in My
ramble I observed, that all those parts of the hills which was
clear of Grass easily disolved and washed into the river and
bottoms, and those hils under which the river runs, Sliped
into it and disolves and mixes with the water of the river, the
bottoms of the river was covered with the water and mud
frome the hills about three Inches deep, those bottoms under
the hils which is covered with Grass, also receives a great
quantity of mud.

Passed 2 Small Creeks on the L. S. and Camped below
the third, (the place that Shannon the man who went a head lived
on grapes) Som heavy Showers of rain all wet, had the
Goat & rabit Stufed rained all night.

Course Distance & refferences 15th. Sept.

           

N. 50°. E.	2	Mls. to the pt. Mouth of White River (1) L. S. passed Sand bars, &c.
N. 26°. E.	1 1/2	Mls. to a pt. on the L. S. a Bluff on the S. S.
N. 10°. W.	1/2	Mls. on the L. S. to the Commencement of a Bluff of black Slate
N. 30°. W.	2	Mls. to the lower pt. of an Island Situated near the L Side (2)
North	2	Miles to the Mouth of a Creek on the L. S. a point of high land opposit under which we camped.
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