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LEWIS AND CLARK Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | ||
May 9th" Thursday 1805
a fine Day wind from the East we proceeded on verry well
the countrey much the appearance which it had yesterday the
bottom & high land rich black earth, Timber not so abondant
as below, we passed the mouth of a river (or the appearance
of a river) on the Lard. Side the bend of which as far as we
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the Missouri at this place which is near half a mile this river
did not contain one drop of running water, about a mile
below this river a large creeke joins the river L.S. which is also
Dry. Those dry Streams which are also verry wide, I think
is the conveyance of the melted Snow, & heavy rains which
[it] is Probable fall in from the high mountainous Countrey
which is said to be between this river & the Yellow Stone
river. I walked on shore the fore part of this day, & observed
Great quantities of the Shining Stone which we view as quarts.
I killed 2 Bucks & a Buffalow, Capt Lewis also killed one
which verry good meat, I saw enumerable herds of buffalow,
& goats to day in every direction. The Missouri keeps its
width which is nearly as wide as near its mouth, great number
of sand bars, the water not so muddy & sand finer & in smaller
perpotion. Capt. Lewis killed 4 pleaver different from any I
have ever before seen, larger & have white breast & the underfeathers
of the wings are white &c.
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N. 30°. W. | 2 ½ | to a clump of high trees on the Stard Side in a bend |
S. 15°. W. | 2 ½ | to the upper part of the Lard point, passing over a large sand bar at the upper pt. of a willow Island in a deep bend to the N. |
S. 5°. W. | 3 | to a point of high timber on the Std Side opsd. a bluff pt. on the Ld Side |
S. 20°. E. | 6 | to a willow point on the Std. Side |
S. 10°. E | 1 1/4 | to the enterance of a Great Dry river on the Lard. Side |
S. 85°. W. | 1 ½ | to a bluff point on the Lard. Side |
N. 60°. W. | 3 | to a tree in a bend to the Std. Side passing over a sand pt. from L.S. |
South | 1 3/4 | to the upper part of the timbered bottom on the Lad Side in a bend |
S 60°. W | 3m | to the mouth of a small creek in a bend to the Stad Side in the mouth of which we came too for the night and called this creek Verner's Creek, the water it contained was principally backwater[10] |
m | 24 ½ |
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