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Show Lewis aml Clarke's Expedition between them is occupied by several mounds scattered pro· miscuously through the gorge, in the centre of which is a deep round bole. From the extremity of the last wall, in a cou 1 ·se N. 32° W. is a distance of ninety-six yards over the low ground, wbere the wall recommences and crosses the plain in a course N. 81° W. for eighteen hundred and thit·ty yards to the bank of the Missouri. In this course its height is about eight feet, till it enters, at the distance of iive hun· dred and thi•·ty-three yards, a deep:ch·cular pond of seventy· three 1aros diameter; after which it is gt·adually lower, to" at·d~ the river: it tom~hcs the rivet• at a muddy bar, which bears every mark ofbeing an ene~·oachmcnt of the water, for a considerable distance; aml a little above the junction, is a small circular redoubt. Along the bank of the river, and at eleven hundred yards distance. in a straight line from this wall, is a second, about six feet high, and o( considerable width: it rises abruptly from the bank of the ~1issouri, at a point where the river bemls, and goes st1·aight fol'ward, forming an acute angle with the last wall, till it enters the river again, not far f1·om the mounds just described, towards which it is obviously tending. At the bend the Missouri is five hundred yards wide; the ground on the opposite side highlands, ot• low hills on the bank; and where the rivet• passes between this fort and Bonbommo island, all the dis· tanee from the bend, it is constantly washing the banks into the stream, a large sandbank being already taken froDl the shore near the wall. During the whole course of tbi§ wall, or glacis, it is covered with trees, among which are many large cotton trees, two or three feet in diameter. lm· mediately OPl>osite the citadel, or the pari most strongly fortified, on Bonhomme island, is a small wot·k in a cil·cu· lar form, with a wall surrounding it, about six feet in height. The young willows along the water, joined to the general appearance of the two shores, induce a belief that the bank of the island is encroaching, and the ~lissouri indemnifies itself by washing away the base of tho fortifieation. The Up the .Jllissoul'i. 65 ~ita.dcl contains about t wenty 'lcres b t the long walls must enlb, ~ • u the parts between r lace neal'ly fl I These al'e the fln .s t remam. s of tl •ve . lUndr·ed acres . had an opportunity of . . le kuld which we have examuung· but F tel'S assure us, that ther . , ~ ' OUl' rench interpre- } lJ c .u c grl'at nu b . atte, the K.anzas the J m crs o( them on the 1 ' acq ucs. &c and y say, that they observed t f : ~ some of out• par. pet· side of the Petit Ar wol o those fortt·csscs on the up- 1 c crcc "'not fat· fr·o . t tc wall was about six fie· c~ t Ju •g I • and tJ m. I Its mouth: that one hundred yards in leng tl •. ' te sn es of the angles September 3. The mornin was c the not·thwcst. 'V ·• g '. old, and the wind from e passcu at sum·Isc th t and at the distance of ~c 'I ' rcc argc sandbars .. n mt es rcacJ d ' t wclvc yards wide COillJ. • f lC a small crccli, about ' · ng m r·om the 1 bluff; this creek laas ol t . d nort I, above a white f' . ) ame the nam f PI r·om tbe number of tlaat f l'U.l t . • c o um ct•eek Whl I . ' hood, and of a dcli~'"htf l l" c I ~re m tho neighbour-o u qua tly F 'I encamped on the soutl . • tve mJ es furthct•, we • • 1 nc.lr the edge of I . IS Wide, and covered .·~} a Jl arn; the rivet• \\ l .. 1 sandbars to d and of a whitish col om·; the timb.- ay: the bauks are high dance of P'rapcs .B ,. I cr scarce, but an ahun-o • c.t.vct· louses too I ga·cat numbers on ll . tave been observed in selves. le I'IVet• ' but none 0 f the animals them- September 4·. We set out from S. S. E. and . t . early, with a very cold wintl • .\ one mile and I If' ct•cck, called 'Vhitel' • a la ' reached a small th . . nne creek on the tl . IS IS a cliff. COVel' d • J ' SOU 1 SH~e. Just above ' e Wit 1 ccdnr tree I creek, called Wh't . s, am at tlu•cc miles a 1 epamt creek of b . on the same side and t fi ' a out tlur·ty yards wide: h t ' a our and a h If 'I c 'Vhitepaint ere k . h • . a rm cs distance from b e , Is t e Rapid · y the F'l'cnch la Jl" . rtver, or, as it is caHed theMis!;ouri in' a' t.Iverc qu1 Co ur t ; t h'I s river empties into ' course S \V b W . fifty-two y·ud "d · • Y ·and Js one hundred and • •• c swt e, and four feet d h rises m the Black . eep at i e confluence. It t . mountams, andpa h ry,withapoot·soH C . , ssest roughahillycoun-a beautiful plain, ot; tl aptam Cl~•·ke ascended three miles to 'oL. J. le uppc~sJde, ll'lJere tiJe Pawnees once "' |