Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents |
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 | Chapter VI Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 |  |
7th, of January Monday 1805 —
a verry cold Clear Day. The Themtr. Stood
at 22°. below
0 Wind NW., the river fell 1 inch Several indians
returned
from hunting, one of them the Big White Chief of the
Lower
Mandan Village, Dined with us, and gave me a Scetch
of the Countrey as far
as the high Mountains, & on the South
Side of the River Rejone,[7]
he Says that the
river rejone
recvees (receives) 6 Small rivers on
the S. Side, & that the
Countrey is verry hilley and the greater part
Covered with
timber Great numbers of beaver &c.
the 3 men returned
from hunting, they killd., 4 Deer
& 2 Wolves, Saw Buffalow a
long ways off. I continue to Draw a
connected plott from the
ideas. from the best information, the Great falls is about
(800) miles nearly West, [8]
An imperfect phonetic
rendering of the French name Roche-Jaune, meaning
"Yellowstone," still
applied to the river here described.—Ed.
Larocque says (Masson's Bourgeois, pp.
310, 311) that Lewis and Clark found
all the longitudes estimated by David
Thompson to be inaccurate. He gives interesting
details as to the
territorial claims of the United States, saying: "They include in
their
territory as far north as River Qui appelle, for, as it
was impossible for a line
drawn west from the west end of Lac des Bois to strike the Mississippi, they make it
run till it strikes its tributary waters, that is, the north branches of
the Missouri and
from thence to the Pacific."—Ed.
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