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Show I I Lewis and Clarke's Ea:'Pedition both the Missouri and l\1ississip}li rivers, in the beds of which, there lie great quantities of concealed timber. The next morning we s~t sail at five o'clock. At the distance of a few miles, we pnssed a remarkable large coal hill on the north side, called~ by the French La Charbon~ niere, and arrived at the town of St. Charles. II ere were-mained a few days. St. Charles is a small town on the north bank of the Missouri, about twenty-one miles ft·om its confluence with the Mississippi. It is situated in a narrow plain, sufficiently high to protect it from the annual risings of the river in the month of June, and at the foot of a range of small hills, which have occasioned its being called Petito Cote, a n~mc by which it is more known to the French than by that of St. Chal'les. One principal street, about a mile in length and running parallel with the river, divides the town, which is composed of neat·ly one hundred small wooden houses, besides a chapel. 'l'he inhal1itants, about fout• lmndred and fifty in numbet·, are cbictly descendants ft·om the J... . rench or Canada; and, in their manners, they unite all the careless gayety, and the amiable hospitalily of the best times of France: yet, lil(e most ot' their countrymen in America, they arc but ill qualified for the rude lif'e of a f1·ontier; not that they are without talent, fot• they llossess mnch natural genius and "Vivacity; nor that they are destitute of enterprize, for their hunting excursions are long, laborious, and hazardous: but their exertions are all desultory; their in~ dustry is without system, and without I>crscvet·a.nce. 'rhe surrounding country, therefore, tl10ugh 1·ich, is not, in general, well cultivated; the inhabitants chiefly subsisting by hunting aml trade with the Indians, and conJine their cultura to gardening, in whieh they excel. Being joined by captain Lewis, who had been detained by business at St. Louis, we again set sail on Monday, May ~ist, in the afternoon, but were prevented by wind and rain from going more than about three mile~, when we encamp,. Up tltt .MissoUJ·i. ctl on the upper point or an i!.iland, ncal'ly opposite a creek which falls in on the south side. On the 22d we made about eighteen miles, passing sevfral small farms on the bank of the river, a number of islands, and a large creek on the south side, called Bonhomme, or Goodman's river. A small number of emigrants from the United States have settled on the sides of this creek, which are very fct·tilc. 'Vc also passed some high lands, and encamped, on the north side, near a small CL'eek. llerc we met with a camp of Kickapoo Indians who had left us at St. Charles, with a promise of procuring us some provisions by the time we ovet·took them. They now made us a present of four deer, and we gave them in return two quarts of whiskey. This tribe reside on the beads of the Kasl~askia and Illinois river, on the other side of the l\liss issippi, but occasionally hunt on the 1\lissouri. May 28. Two miles from our camp of last night., we reached a riYer emptying itself on the north side, called OsagE> 'Voman river. It is about thirty yards wide, and has now a settlement of thirty orfot·ty families from the United States. Abottt a mile and a half beyond this is a large cave, on the south side at the foot of cliffs nearly three hundred feet high, overhanging tl1e water, 'vhich becomes ' 'cry swift at this place. 'l'he cave is one hundre(~ and twenty feet wide, forty feet deep, and twenty high, it h known by the name of the 'l'a,·ern, among the tradet·s '' ho haYe written their names on the rock, and painted some images which command the homage uf the Indians and French. About a mile further we passed a small creek called 'I'avcrn ereck . and cncampe<l on the south side of the riYCI', having gone nine miles. Early the next morning we ascended a very difficult rapid, called the Devil'~ Haec Ground, where the eui'I'ent sets {or half a mile against some projecting rooks on the south side. W c were less fortunate in attempting a second place of equal difficulty. Passing near the southern shore, the |