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Falls of the Ohio River, Clarksville, Indiana, October 25, 2000

[View: southeast.  38º 16’ 35” N - 85º 45’ 49” W]

[Lewis]                                                                           18^th September [1803]

The morning was clear and having had every thing in readiness the over night

we set out before sunrise and at nine in the morning passed Letart’s falls . . .

this rappid is the most considerable in the whole course of the Ohio, except the

rappids as they are called opposite to Louisville in Kentuckey. . .