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Building a Scenic Overlook, Indian Cave State Park, Nebraska, July 22, 1998

[View: east.  40º 15’ 51” N - 95º 33’ 53” W]

[Clark]                                                                                          July 14th, 1804

. . .the atmispr. became Sudenly darkened by a black and dismal looking Cloud

. . .  The Storm which passd over an open Plain from the N.E. Struck the our boat

on the Strbd. quarter, and would have thrown her up on the Sand Island. . .had not

the party leeped out on the Leward Side and kept her off with the assistance of the

ancker & Cable. . .

In this Situation we continued about 40 minits when the Storm sudenly ceased and

the river became instancetaniously as Smoth as Glass.