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  Clark
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  June 4, 1804
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  June 4th 1804 Monday, a fair Day Sent out 3 hunters, our mast broke by the 
  boat running under a tree Passed an Islands on Stbd Side on which grow 
  Seeder a Creek at  ¿¿  miles on the Starbd Sd# Course N# 30° W 4 ms# to 
  pt# on St# Side below 2d Isd# passed a Creek on Lbd Side 15 yd# wide, I 
  call Nightingale Creek. this Bird Sang all last night and is the first of 
  the kind I ever herd, below this Creek and the last Passed a Small Isd on 
  the Stbd# N# 25 W# 3 ms# to a pt# on St# Sd# passed a Sm# Isd# on St# Sd# 
  and Seeder Creek on the Same Side 20 yds wide passed a Creek on Lbd Sd# 20 
  yd wide, I call Mast Creek, this is a Short Creek, fine land above & 
  below the mouth. Jentle rise of about 50 foot, Delightfull Timber of Oake 
  ash walnut hickory &c# &c# wind from N W# by W# N# 58° W# 71/2 ms# 
  passed a Creek Called Zoncar on the Lbd Side, N 75 W 3 me# to a pt, S# Sd# 
  called Batue a De charm, a plain on the hill opposit. I got out & 
  walked on the L Sd# thro a Charming Bottom of rich Land about one mile 
  then I assended a hill of about 170 foot on the top of which is a Moun and 
  about 100 acres of Land of Dead timber on this hill one of the party says 
  he has found Lead ore a verry extensive Cave under this hill next the 
  river, the Land on the top is fine, This is a very bad part of the river 
  Seven Deer Killed to day by our hunters ¬ one of the horses is Snaged, 
  the other lost his Shous to day the Bottom on the St# Side to day is 
  covered with rushes, not verry good  ¿¿  the high land Comes to the bank 
  on the Labd Side and good 2d rate land. 
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