JouteAt. 
The following day we passed the Blackbird hill, and the riv^ 
er Platte. The navigation in this part is much more dangerous 
than above, from the number of trees fixed in the bottom. The 
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bottoms are much wider thm above, and better wooded; in 
some places for twenty miles and upwards, we were out of sight 
■of the high lands: but the low grounds were every where over¬ 
flowed. The water rushed into the woods with great velocity* 
and in bends it poured over the gorge into the river again $ a 
sheet of water sometimes i'or a mile, flowed over the bank. 
in something better than two days afterwards, we arrived at 
Fort Clark, having come a thousand miles in eight or nine days, 
without meeting a living soul. Here We were treated politely 
by the officers. Mr. Sibly, the factor, had returned but a few 
days before, from a journey to the interior, and shewed us spe¬ 
cimens of salt, which he had procured at the salines, on tho 
Arkansas. 
We arrived at St. Louis early in August, having made four¬ 
teen hundred and forty miles in little better than fourteen days. 
