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[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
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.
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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