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  • April 26th, 2008 6: 13 pm ET what next hilley STREET FIGHTING?

    Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate 2008

  • Swam the river near our camp two of them were cought by the party in the river. at half past 4 oClock we set out and proceeded on verry well [blank space in MS.] miles and incamped on the Std. Side the countrey as before hilley & broken verry small proportion of timber in the points, some little pine & Ceader in the hills

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • The countrey is hilley & rugged and the earth of a lightish brown and but indifferent, some small cedar is scattered on the Sides of the hils & in the hollars, some pine ridges is also to be seen

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • Wednesday 8th Sent 9 men in persuit of the Indians and proceeded with the ballance N about 8 miles over a verry hilley country mountains bg N about 20 miles distant and others S W and W about 50 miles -

    Diary of William H. Ashley 1825

  • They also inform that 10 nations lives on this river by hunting and on buries &c. The Countrey begin to be thinly timbered with Pine & low white oake verry rocky and hilley - We purchased at this vilg 4 dogs - at the end of this Course is

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Decent to a butifull Stream, passed over a Second hill of a verry Steep assent & thro a hilley Countrey for 8 miles an Encamped on a Small

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • S.all rivers on the S. S.de, & that the Countrey is verry hilley and the greater part Covered with timber, Great numbers of beaver & c. - the

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Side, extensive bottoms and low hilley Countrey on each Side (good wintering Place) a high peaked mountain Suppose to be Mt. Hood is on the Lard Side S. 85 E. 40 miles distant from the mouth of quick Sand river.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • I walked out on the lower Side of this river and found the countrey hilley the Soil composed of black mole & a Small perportion of Sand containing great quantity of Small peable Some limestone, black flint,

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Countrey hilley on both Sides of a rich black earth, which disolves

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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