15th of April Monday 1805
Set out at an early hour, Capt. Lewis walked on shore and
Killed a goose, passed a Island in a bend to the L.S. the
wind hard from the S. E. after brackfast I walked on Shore
and assended to the high Countrey on the S. S. and off from
the Missouri about
three miles the countrey is butifull open
fertile plain the dreans
[drains] take theer rise near the clifts
of the river and run from the
river in a N E derection as far as
I could See, this is the part of the
River which Mouse river
the waters of Lake Winnipec approaches within a
fiew miles
of Missouri, and I believe those dreans lead into that river.
we
passed a creek about 20 yds. wide on the S. S. the
bottoms of
this creek is extensive & fertile, the water of this as
also, all
the Streams which head a fiew miles in the hills discharge water
which is black & unfit for use (and can safely say that I have
not seen one drop of water fit for use above fort Mandan except
Knife and the little Missouris Rivers and the
Missouri, the
other Streams being so much impregnated with mineral as to
be verry disagreeble in its present state. I saw the remains
of
Several camps of ossinniboins, near one of those camps &
at no great
distance from the mouth of the aforesaid creek, in
a hollow, I saw a large
Strong pen made for the purpose of
catching the antelope, with wings
projecting from it widining
from the pen.
Saw several gangs of
Buffalow and som elk at a distance, a
black bear seen from the Perogues to
day. passed a rock in
the Middle of the river, some smaller rocks from
that to the
L. Shore, the dog that came to us yesterday morning continues
to follow us, we camped on a sand point
to the L.S.
Course distance &c. he 15th of
April
North |
2 |
m. to a pt. of wood on the Ld. Sid. a high hill on the Sd. Sid. |
N. 18°
W. |
5 |
miles to a point of wood on the Sd. Sid. opsd. the lower
point of an Island L. Bend |
N. 20°
E. |
3 1/4 |
miles to a Bluff point on the Sd. Sid. passed the upper
part of the
Island at 2 miles |
N. 30° E. |
2
1/2 |
miles to a point of woodland on the L.
Side |
N. 10° .W |
1/2 |
a
mile on the Lad. point |
N. 15°
W. |
1/4 |
of a mile on the L. pt.
here the waters of Mouse
river is near |
N.
12° W. |
1 1/2 |
miles to the lower part of a Bluff on
the Sd. Side passing
a
creek on the S. Side. Goat pen creek |
N. 52°
W. |
2 |
miles to a high Bluff on the Sd. Side |
N. 75°
W. |
3 |
miles to a pt. of woodland on
the S. Side |
N. 16°
W. |
3 |
miles to a point of woods on the L.
S. |
|
23 |
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