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north is the west side, hence the landing and camp at Council 
Bluff must have been on the west, or Nebraska, side of the Mis- 
souri river, whereas Council Bluffs, Iowa, is on the east side. 
The distance of Council Bluff from the Platte, its distance and 
direction from the mouth of the Boyer, and its location on the 
west bank of the Missouri river seem to be sufficient to prove 
that the Council Bluff of Lewis and Clark was in Nebraska. 
It is also evident that the Council Bluff of Lewis and Clark 
is the same as that of Say and Nicollet. Thirteen years after 
Lewis and Clark’s return voyage, on which Council Bluff’ was 
again visited,^ the Long Expedition established a winter camp 
“near the quarters of the troops aN Council Bluffs (Camp Mis- 
,souri).”^® 
-A military expedition, under the command of Col. Henry At- 
kinson, had preceded the scientific expedition under Maj. Long, 
and established Camp Missouri at Council Bluff in September, 
1819. On the 19th of September of the same year the Long 
party, which had ascended the Missouri river in the steamer 
“Western Engineer,” established a winter cantonment “on the 
west bank of the Missouri, about half a mile above Fort Lisa, 
five miles below Council Bluff, and three miles above the mouth 
of Boyer’s river. 
This camp was named “Engineer Cantonment,” and Say re- 
fers to it frequently in his papers under that name, or simply 
as “Cantonment.” It is in Nebraska. 
It is further stated (p. 222) that “cliffs of sparry limestone 
rise in the rear of the site w^e had selected, to an elevation of 
near three hundred feet. At times of low water strata of hori- 
zontal sandstone are disclosed in the bed of the Missouri. These 
pass under and support the limestone. ’ ’ 
And still further it is stated (p. 229) that “the Council Bluff, 
so called by Lewis and Clark, from a council with the Otoes 
and Missouries held there on the 3d of August, 1804, is a remark- 
able bank rising abruptly from the brink of the river, to an ele- 
vation of about one hundred and fifty feet.” 
‘'Original Journals, volume V, p. 379. 
lOAccount of an exppdition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains per- 
formed in the years 1819, 1820 — under the command of Major S. H. Long. 
Compiled from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T, Say, and other gentlemen of 
the party by Edwin James, botanist and geologist to the expedition. Pub- 
lished 1823. The original London edition, published in three volumes, was 
consulted by the writer, but the references herein given are to the Thwaites 
edition in four volumes published in 1905, as this is more accessible. The 
words quoted above appear in Vol. I, p. 12. 
'‘This verv full designation of the locality appears, on p., 221, Vol. I, of the 
Thwaites edition of Long, and on p. 137 of ■ the- London editinn. - 
