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The Tower, Boyd County Nebraska, August 15, 2001

[View: north.  42º 56’ 02” N — 98º 28’ 41” W]

[Clark]

Septr. 7^th Friday. . .  we landed after proceeding 5 1/2 miles, near the foot of a

round mounting which I saw yesterday resembling a dome.

Capt Lewis & my Self walked up, to the top which forms a Cone. . . in decending

this Cupola, discovered a Village of Small animals that burrow in the grown (those

animals are Called by the french Pitite Chien)   Killed one & Cought one a live by

poreing a great quanity of water in his hole   we attempted to dig to the beds of one

of thos animals, after diging 6 feet, found by running a pole down that we were not

half way to his Lodges. . .