@section 2 {day} @section 3 {au} Clark @section 3 {dt} August 21, 1804 @section 3 {txc} 21st August Tuesday 1804 We Set out verry early this morning and proceeded on under a gentle Breeze from the S# E# passed willow creek Small on the S# S# below a Bluff of about 170 feet high and one 1/2 mes# above Floyds river at 11/2 miles higher & above the Bluff passed the Soues River S# S# this River is about the Size of Grand river and as Mr# Durrien our Scones intptr. says "navagable to the falls 70 or 80 Leagues and above these falls" Still further, those falls are 200 feet or there abouts & has two princapal pitches, and heads with the St# peters passing the head of the Demoien, on the right below the falls a Creek Coms in which passes thro Clifts of red rock which the Indians make pipes of, and when the different nations Meet at those queries all is piece, passed a place in a Prarie on the L# S# where the Mahars had a Village formerly. the Countrey above the Platt R has a great Similarity. Campd# on the L# Side. Clouds appear to rise in the west & threten wind. I found a verry excellent froot resembling the read Current, the Scrub on which it grows resembles Privey & about the Common hight of a wild plumb ¬ =
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