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Giant Springs, Missouri River, Great Falls, Montana, June 15, 2000

[View: east    47º 32’ 05” N - 111º 13’ 49” W]

[Lewis]                                                                          Saturday June 29^th 1805.

. . . I continued my rout to the fountain which I found much as Capt. C; had

discribed & think it may well be retained on the list of prodegies of this

neighbourhood towards which, nature seems to have dealt with a liberal hand,

for I have scarcely experienced a day since my first arrival in this quarter without

experiencing some novel occurrence among the party or witnessing the

appearance of some uncommon object.  I think this fountain the largest I ever

beheld, and the hadsome cascade which it affords over some steep and irregular

rocks in it’s passage to the river adds not a little to it’s beauty.