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  Clark
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  August 8, 1805
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  August 8th Thursday 1805 We proceeded on early wind from the S W# The 
  Thermometer at 52 a 0 at Sunrise at 5 miles by water & 41/2 on a 
  derect line from the forks we passed a River on the Lard Side 30 yards 
  wide and navagable for Some distance takeing its rise in the Mountains 
  Easterly & with the waters of Madisons River, passes thro an extensive 
  vallie open & furtill &c# this river we call Philanthophy ¬ above 
  this river (which has but little timber) Jeffersons R is crooked with 
  Short bends a fiew Islands and maney gravelly Sholes, no large timber, 
  Small willow Birch & Srubs &c# Encamped on the Lard Side, R Fields 
  joined us this eveng. & informes that he could not find Shannon my 
  foot yet verry Swore 
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