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Show 62 ]Jewis and Clar1~e's Expedition wood river, amounting to about one huudt·ed and fifty men. 1'entb, Sistasoonc: tbis nation numbrrs two huntlred men, and reside at the hra,\ofthe St. Petct·'s. OL' these several tribes, more pat·ticular notice will be taken bet·rafter. Saturday, Se}>trmber t., 1804. We pt•oceetled this morn· ing under a light southet•n breeze, and passed the Calumet bluffs; these are composed of a yellowish re.d, and brownish clay as hat•tl as chalk, which it much resembles, and arc one hum\red and seventy, or one hundred and eigl1ty feet high. At this l>laec the hills on eaeh side come to the verge of the river, those on the south · being higher than ou the nor·th. 01>posite the bluffs is a lat·ge island covered with timber; above whi,•h the highlands form a cliif over the river on the north side, (.•alled White Bear cliff; an animal of tbat kind being killed in one of the l1oles in it, wbich are nume· rous and allparently drep. At six miles we came to a large sand island covered with cottonwood; tl1e wind was high, and the weathet·rainy and cloudy dm·ing the day. We made fifteen miles to a place on the north side, at the lower point of a large island called Bonhommc, or Goodman's island. "fhe country on both sides has the same character of prai· ries, witl1 no timber; with occasional low lauds cove1·ed with cottonwootl, elm and oak: our hunters had killed an elk and a beaYer: the catfish too a1·e in great abundance. Septembe1· 2. It rained last night, and this morning we bad a high wind from theN. ,V. We went three miles to the lower part of an ancient fortification on the south side, and passed tlte l1cad of Bonhomme island, which is large and "ell timbered: after this tl1e wind became so violent, at1 end· ed by a cold rain, that we were compelled to land at foul' miles on the northern side, under a high bluff of yellow clay, about one bundn·d and ten feet in height. Our hunters supplied us with four elk; and we had grapes and plums on the banks: we also saw the beargrass and rue, on the side of tl1e blufrs. At this place there are highlands ou both sides |