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Show CHAPTER XXIV Hisory of the Fort-Dseipion -Clima o i o the Couney -Plants-Asioale-Th Luwis and Cramks gave an account of the state of this part of the country at the time o their residence i the vienity of the Mandan vllages, in the winte of 1803-+. At that tim they erected o fort on the north bauk of the Missouri, a ltle above the place where Fort now stands, but, at present, there is not the smallest trace of that post. The river has sinc changedi bed1 suck maer, t i i of thathudden which was then at some distanc rom the shore, is now in the middle of the stream ige in the channel of the Missour re of very common oceurrence, so that all the sla m\h,sand ba litle bends, and points of lan s o i special maps, are correct for only a short e, Above th Manitar villages is a place where the river made its way through a tongue Urvma, and no forms a channel nearly four miles from its former bed. ~This took place Some persons R e o s et e M-»mm Charbonnean, who w -seven years in this par of the country, was he winter with them, an afterwvards accompanicd the Columbia. River. He generally lves at. Awatichai, th second villge of the Manitarics, and, exceping some jour ) s alvays remsined at this spo hence he is well sequainted with the Ma s and language, though, as he candidl confssd, hecould never ean o pronownce it cor madian of German descent, no e Company, an ke, came here in 1822, as agent umu- Columbia Fur Company. At tha time there was 10 fort here. Major Pilcher, the same gentleman who eame b us up th Digital image© 2004 Marriot Libary, University o Uah. Al righs reerved |