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  Clark
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  August 5, 1805
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  August 5th Monday 1805 a Cold Clear morning the wind from the S# E# the 
  river Streight & much more rapid than yesterday, I Sent out Jo# & 
  R# Fields to kill Some meat they killed 2 Deer & we brackfast on one 
  of them and proceeded on with great dificuelety from the rapidity of the 
  Current, and numerable rapids we had to encounter, at 4 oClock P M Murcury 
  49 ab. 0, passed the mouth of principal fork which falls in on the Lard# 
  Side, this fork is about the Size of the Stard# one less water reather not 
  so rapid, its Course as far as can be Seen is S# E & appear to pass 
  through between two mountains, the N W# fork being the one most in our 
  course i. e. S 25 W# as far as I can See, deturmind me to take this fork 
  as the principal and the one most proper the S E fork is of a Greenish 
  Colour & contains but little timber. The S W fok contains more timber 
  than is below for Some distance, we assended this fork about one mile and 
  Encamped on an Island which had been laterly overflown & was wet we 
  raised our bead on bushes, we passed a part of the river above the forks 
  which was divided and Scattered thro the willows in Such a manner as to 
  render it dificuelt to pass through for a 1/4 of a mile, we wer oblige to 
  Cut our way thro the willows ¬ Men much fatigued from their excessive 
  labours in hauling the Canoes over the rapids &c# verry weak being in 
  the water all day. my foot verry painfull 
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  Assended the N W Fork 9 miles on a Course S# 30° W# to a Bluff on the 
  Stard# Side passed Several Bayous & Islands 
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