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1804] DUBOIS TO PLATTE

3rd

M: Garrous Boat loaded with provisions pass up for Prarie du chien, to trade

18th

at St. Louis

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The Country about the Mouth of Missouri is [sic] rich and partially Settled On the East Side of the Mississippi a [sic] rich bottom extends back about 3 miles, and rises by several elevations to the high Country, which is thinly timbered with Oakes & On the lower Side of the Missouri, at about miles back the Country rises [sic], to a high  [sic] thinly [sic] Country, the lands are generally fine on the River bottoms and well calculating for farming on the upper Country

in the point the Bottom is extensive and [sic] rich for 15 or 20 miles up each river, and about 2/3 of which is open [sic] plains in which the [sic] of St Charles & portage de Scioux had [sic] crops of corn & wheat. on the upland is a fine farming country partially timbered for Some distance back.

[DISCIPLINE AND ORGANIZATION]

[The following" Detachment Orders" are in the Voorhis collection of Lewis and Clark manuscripts - see note 2, p. 3, ante. The documents show that the "robust [sic] hardy young men," many of them fresh from the Kentucky woods, found it not easy to accustom themselves to the rigid discipline of a military corps; and illustrate the difficulties which beset the two captains during the first winter camp. The orders relating to the personnel of the expedition, with the organization of the messes, etc., are especially interesting and suggestive.- ED.]