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  Clark
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  July 15, 1805
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  July 15th Monday 1805 rained all the last night I was wet all night this 
  morning wind hard from the S# W# we Set out at 10 oClock and proceeded on 
  verry well passed a river on the Lard Side about 80 yards wide which we 
  Call after the Secy of the Navey Smiths River the river verry Crooked 
  bottoms extensive rich and Passes thro a butifull vally between 2 mts. 
  Conts# high grass, our Canoes being So Small Several of the men Capt# 
  Lewis & my Self Compelled to walked on Shore & Cross the bends to 
  keep up with the Canoes ¬ a round mountain on our right abt# 10 miles 
  appears inaxcessable we Call fort mountain. The Prickley pear in bloom but 
  fiew other flowers. Sun flowr are common, also lambs quarter & 
  Nettles. Capt Lew Killed 2 Elk & the hunters killed 2 Deer & a 
  Ortter, we Camped on the Stard Side at which place I Saw many beaver, the 
  timber on the edge of the river more Common than below the falls ¬ as 
  I am compelled to walk on Shore find it verry dificuelt to take the 
  Courses of the river, as it is verry Crooked more So than below 
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