[Clark:]
July 16th. Tuesday 1805
a fair morning after a verry cold night, heavy dew, dispatched
one man back for an ax left a fiew miles below, and
Set out early Killed a Buffalow on which we Brackfast
Capt Lewis & 3 men went on to the mountain to take a
meridian altitude, passed about 40 Small Camps, which appeared
to be abandoned about 10 or 12 days, Suppose they
were Snake Indians, a fiew miles above I Saw the poles
Standing in their position of a verry large lodge of 60 feet
Diameter, & the appearance of a number of Leather Lodges
about, this Sign was old & appeared to have been last fall
great number of buffalow the river is not So wide as below
from 100 to 150 yards wide & Deep Crouded with Islands &
Crooked Some scattering timber on its edge Such as Cotton
wood Cotton willow, willow and box elder, the S[h]rubs are
arrow wo[o]d red wood, Choke cherry, red berries, Goose
beries, Sarvis buries, red & yellow Currents a Sp[e]cie of
Shomake &c.
I camped on the head of a Small Island near the Stard. Shore
at the Rockey Mountains this Range of mountains appears
to run NW & SE and is about 800 feet higher than the
Water in the river faced with a hard black rock the current
of the River from the Medison river to the Mountain is gentle,
bottoms low and extensive, and its General Course is S. 10°. W.
about 30 miles on a direct line
Course Distances &c. from White bear Island Camp to the mountains.
July 13th. 14th. 15th. & 16. 1805
|
miles |
|
| S 10°. E |
1 1/2 |
to a point of low trees on the Lard. Side passed a
Willow Island L.S. |
| S 36°. E |
1 |
to a point of wood on the Stard Side |
| South |
1 |
to a Clift of rocks in a bend on the L.S. |
| SW |
1 1/2 |
to Some trees in a bend passed a timbered Island on
the Std. Side |
| South |
1 1/4 |
to a point of low wood Std. Side |
| S. 24°. W |
1 |
to a bunch of bushes on the L.S. |
| West |
2 |
to a grove of trees in a bend L.S. |
| N. 26°. W. |
2 |
to a point of wood on the L.S. |
| North |
1 |
allong the Lard point |
|
12 1/4 |
|
14
| N. 20°. W |
1 1/2 |
to a Creek on the Lard. Side |
| S. W. |
3/4 |
to the lower point of an Island. S.S. |
| S. 10°. E |
1 1/2 |
opposit the Island on the L.S. |
| S. 16°. W. |
3/4 |
to a point above the Island L. Side. |
| South |
1 1/2 |
to point of low timber on the Stard. Side a Bluff &
rocks on L.S. |
| West |
1/2 |
to a tree in a bend on the L. Side |
| North |
1/2 |
to a point of wood on the L. Side |
| N. 12°. W. |
1 |
to a point on the Lard Side |
| West |
1 1/2 |
to a point on the Stard. Side |
| N. 16°. W |
1/2 |
to a point of wood on the L. Side |
| N. 60°. W. |
1/2 |
along Said point, passing a large Sand bar L.S. |
| S. 54°. W. |
1/2 |
to a point of wood Stard Side at which place I built
2 Canoes. |
|
23 1/4 |
|
15
| SW |
1/4 |
to the upper part of a wood St Side |
| S. 60°. E |
3/4 |
to a bend on the Lard. Side |
| S. 20°. W. |
1/2 |
on the Lard. Side in the bend |
| N. 70°. W. |
1 1/2 |
to a point on the Stard. Side passed an Island |
| South |
3/4 |
to the Lard. Bend |
| S. 30°. W. |
2 1/4 |
to a bend on the Stard. Side opsd. an Isld. passed a
Stard. & Lard point |
| West |
1 1/2 |
to the lower point of a wood at the mouth of Smiths
river in the Lard bend 80 yards wide |
| N. 45°. W |
1 3/4 |
to the Stard bend |
| South |
3 |
to the head of an Island in the Lard bend passing
over the Lard point |
| N. 45°. W |
1 1/4 |
to the Stard. bend |
| West |
1/2 |
in the Stard. bend |
| South |
3/4 |
in the Stard. bend |
| S 45°. E |
3/4 |
in the Stard. bend |
| East |
1 |
in the Stard bend passd an Isld. L.S. |
| SE |
3/4 |
on the Lard Side |
| West |
2 1/2 |
to a wood in the Std bend |
|
43 |
|
16th.
| S 30°. E |
1 1/2 |
to trees on the Lard bend |
| West |
1 1/2 |
to the Stard. bend passing over a Sd. pt. |
| S. 10° E |
3/4 |
to the mouth of a run Lard bend |
| SW |
1 1/2 |
to a bend on the Stard. Side |
| S. 15°. E |
1/2 |
to a bend on the Lard. Side. |
| SW. |
2 |
to the mouth of a run on Std. Side |
| SE. |
1 |
to a bend Lard Side (opsd. a big Lodge) |
| South |
1 |
on the Lard Side in a bend opposit an Island |
| S. 70° W |
1 |
in the Lard bend |
|
53 3/4 |
|
| S. 30° W |
1 |
in the bend to the Lard Side |
| South |
3/4 |
in the bend to the Lard. Side |
| N. 30°. W |
1 1/4 |
to a bend on the Stard Side passed a Small Island |
| South |
4 |
to the Lower point of a timber on the Stard Side
passed 6 Islands |
| S. 60°. E. |
1/2 |
to the bend on the Lard Side |
| S 50° W |
1 1/2 |
to the upper point of an Island |
| S 18°. E |
1 |
to the lower point of an Island |
| SW |
2 |
to a Bayou on the S.S. passed an Isld. |
| South |
1/4 |
to the Lard bend enca[m]ped on the upper point of
the island |
17th.
| West |
1 1/2 |
to a Spur of the rocky Mountain in a bend to the
Stard. Side |
| S. 10° E |
1 1/4 |
to a Spur of the d°. on the L. Side |
| S. 60° W. |
2 |
to a Small Island in the bend to the Stard Side |
| South |
1/4 |
to a pine tree on the lower point of an Island above a
rapid, at the mountains. high rocks on each side |
| miles |
71 |
|
