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Documenting Lewis and Clark – 1805, The Westward Passage
 May
31: White Cliffs Of The Missouri
Patrick Gass: We passed some very curious cliffs and rocky peaks, in a long range. Some of them 200 feet high and not more than eight feet thick. They seems as if built by the hand of man, and are so numerous that they appear like the ruins of an ancient city.(Moulton, Vol. 10, p. 96)
Meriwether Lewis: I walked on shore this evening and examined these walls minutely and preserved a specimine of the stone. . . . on these clifts I met with a species of pine which I had never seen, it differs from the pitch-pine in the particular of it's leaf and cone, . . .. I saw near those bluffs the most beautifull fox I ever beheld, the colours appeared to me to be a fine orange yellow, white and black, I endevoured to kill this anamal . . ..(Moulton, Vol. 4, p. 227)
Joseph Whitehouse: the hunters came in at dark had killed 1 black taild. Deer 2 Ibex or mountain Sheep (rams) which had handsom large horns. we took care of the horns in order to take them back to the U. States. a pleasant evening.(Moulton, Vol. 11, p. 180)
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