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Show S46 Lewis and Clarke's Expeditio·tt As soon as the baggage was dried, it was reloatled flU board the boats, but we now founll it so much diminished. that we would we able to proceed with one canoe less. We therefore hauled up the superfluous one into a thicket of brush where we secured her against being swept away by the high tide. At one o'clock all set out, except captain Lewis who remained till the evening in order to complete the observation of equal altitudes: we passed several bends of the river both to the right anc.l left, as well as a number of bayous on both sides, and made seven miles by water, though the distance by land is only tht·ec. 'Ve then encamped on a creek which rises in a high mountain to the northeast, and after passing through an open plain for several miles, discharges itsrlf on the left, where it is a bold a·unning streaDl twel.vc yards wide. We called it Turf creek, from the num· ber of" bogs and the quantity of turf on its water's. In the course of the afternoon there fell a shower of rain attended with thunder and lightning, which lasted about fot•ty minutes, and the weather remained so cloudy all night that we were uuable to take any lunar observations. Uneasy about Shannon, we sent R. Fields in search of him this morning, but we have as yet no intelligence of either of them. Out· only game to-day was one deer. Thursday 8. There was a heavy dew this morning. Having left one of the canoes, there ar·e now more men to spare fot• the chace: and fout• were sent out at an early hour, after which we proceeded. we .. made five miles IJ; water along two islands and several bayous, but as the river formed seve.n different bends towards the left, the distance IJy land was only two miles south of our encam1>ment. At the end of that course we reached the uppet• principal entrance of a stream which we called Philanthropy river. This river empties itself into the Jefferson on the southeast side, by two channels a short distance from each other: from its size and its southeastern course, we p1·esume that it rises in the Rocky mountains near the aources of the Madison. It is thirty yards UjJ the .Missout·i. wide at its entrance, has a very gentle current, and is navigable for some distance. One mile above this river we passed an island, a second at the distance of six miles further, duringwlticb the river makes a considerable bend to the east. Reuben Fields returned about noon with information that he bad gone up 'Visdom river till its entrance into the mo~ntains, but could fiml nothing of Shannon. )V c made seven m1les beyond the last island, and after passing some small b~yous, eneam11ed under a few high trees on the left, at the distance of fourteenmilesabovePhilanthropyriver by water, though only six by land. The river has in fact become so very crooked tbatalthough bymeansofthellolewhich we now use constantly we make a considerable distance, yet being obliged to foll~w its windings, at the end of the day, we iind ourselves very httle advanced on our general course. It forms itself into smaU circular bends, which at'e so numerous tbat wit1lin the last fourteen miles we passed thirty-five of them, all inclining towards the right; it is however much mot·c gentle and deep than below,Vistlom river, and its general wic\th is from .. tl1irty-fivc to forty-five yards. 'l'he general appearance of the surrountling country is that of a valley five or six miles wide, enclosed between two high mountains. The bottom is rich, with some small timber on the islands and along the J•iver, which consists rather of' undet•brusb, and a few cottonwood, birch, and willow-trees. 'I'he high grounds ha,'e some scattered pine, which just relieve the general nakedncs ·s of the hills and t.heiJlain, where there is nothing ~xccpt grass. Along the bottoms we saw to-day a considerable quantity of the buff;doe clover, the sunflower, flax, gr·~en sward, thistle and several species of rye grass, some of which rise to the height of three or four feet. There is also a grass with a soft smooth leaf which rises about three feet high, and beat·s its seed very much like the timothy, but it does n?t grow luxuriantly nor would it apparently answer so well ID om· meadows as that plant. We preilerved some oi' ib seetl, |