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116 this map will no doubt help to an understanding of this article. The writer has inserted on this map the names of the stations on the North Bank Railway, and some other points on the north side of the river, which will be referred to later.

Many writers, both those of the past and the present, have given vivid descriptions of the falls and the rapids below them. It is not intended to quote these descriptions, but to confine this article solely to the mention of the Indian villages at these points.

It will be noticed that on the Lewis and Clark map, opposite the Great Falls and Little Narrows, villages of mat lodges of the Eneeshers are shown. At the head of the Long Narrows the name of a different tribe appears, the Echelutes, and they live in wooden houses sunk partly underground. The following description of this village is quoted from the copy of the original journals of Lewis and Clark (Thwaites edition).

(Clark, Oct. 24, 1805, first draft.)

"...a village of 20 wood houses in a Deep bend to the Star'd Side below which a rugid black rock about 20 feet hiter than the Common high flud of the river...The natives of this village—one of whom envited me into his house which I found to be large and commodious, and the first wooden houses in which Indians have lived Since we left those in the vicinity of the Illinois, they are scattered permiscuisly on an elivated Situation near a mound of about 30 feet above the Common Leavel, which mound has Some remains of houses and has every appearance of being artificial."

The deep bend on the right side of the river, just above the Long Narrows (or Five Mile Rapids), as well as the mound mentioned by Lewis and Clark, are clearly shown on the map opposite page 115. The mound is plainly evident today, and has been marked by the writer on the map as closely to its true position as the scale of the map will permit A photograph of this mound is