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Shell Oil Docks, Mississippi River, Hartford, Illinois, May 15, 1998

[View: northwest. 38° 50’ 32” N - 90° 06’ 16” W]

[Clark]                                                                  May the 14^th 1804 - Monday

 . . .fixing for a Start. . .  many of the neighbours Came from the Countrey

 mail and feemail. . .

Set out from Camp River a Dubois at 4 oClock P.M. and proceeded up the

Missouris under Sail to the first Island in the Missouri and Camped on the upper

point opposit a Creek on the South Side below a ledge of limestone rock called

Colewater, made 4 1/2 miles. . .men in high Spirits