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Fishing Piers, Columbia River, The Dalles Dam, Washington, December 19, 2002

[View: east.  45º 36’ 38” N - 121º 08’ 49” W]

[Clark]                                                                      October 24^th Thursday 1805

. . .  I dispatched a Sufficent number of the good Swimers back for the 2 canoes

above the last rapid and with 2 men walked down three miles to examine the

river Over a bed of rocks, which the water at verry high fluds passes over, on

those rocks I Saw Several large Scaffols on which the Indians dry fish; as this

is out of Season the poles on which they dry those fish are tied up verry

Securely in large bundles and put upon the Scaffolds, I counted 107 Stacks of

dried pounded fish in different places on those rocks which must have contained

10,000 w. of neet fish. . .