Clark
Munday 8th September 1806
Set out very early this morning, passed on old tradeing house on the S W Side a few miles above the Council bluffs, at 11 A M we Came too at the bluffs and Capt Lewis and myself walked up on the bluffs and around to examine the Country and Situation more particularly, the Situation appeared to us eaqually as eligable as when we passed up for an establishment, the hill high and Commanding with a high rich bottom of great extend below. we proceeded on very well all being anxious to get to the River Platt to day they ply'd their orers very well, and we arived at our old encampment at White Catfish Camp
12 miles above the river platt at which place we lay from the 22th to the 26th of July 1804 here we encamped haveing made 78 Miles to day. The Missouri at this place does not appear to Contain 〈as much〉 more water than it did 1000 Miles above this, the evaperation must be emence; in the last 1000 miles this river receives the water 20 rivers and maney Creeks Several of the Rivers large and the Size of this river or the quantity of water does not appear to increase any—
The post first passed on [August 4, 1804], south of Blair, Washington County, Nebraska, probably established by James Mackay in 1795; see [January 10, 1804]. Atlas map 14; MRC map 24.
The Council Bluff near Fort Calhoun, Washington County, where they camped from [July 30] to [August 3, 1804], and counciled with the Otos and Missouris. Atlas map 13; MRC map 24.
The party camped here [July 22]–[27], 1804, near the Mills-Pottawattamie county line, in Iowa. They have now left the area of the large-scale Atlas maps. MRC map 23.
Clark says seventy-eight.