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Badger Lake, Monona County, Iowa, August 11, 1998

[View: south.  42° 09’ 26” N - 96° 12’ 50” W]

[Clark]

12^th August Sunday 1804. . .  We Set out early   the river wider than usial, and

Shallow, at 12 we halted in a bend to the left to take the Meridian altitude, & Dine,

& Sent one man across where we took Dinner yesterday to Step off the Distance

across Isthmus, he made it 974 yards, and the bend around is 18 3/4 miles. . .