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August 28th, 2006 at 6:17 pm rockey vaccarella's to do list says:
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The Minetarres inform us that this river heads in the 1st. of the rockey Mountains & passes through a broken Countrey. its head at no great distance from the Yellow Stone River The Countrey about this river as described yesterday we took the Meredian altitude 59°.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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River Running West and north country mountainous and some what rockey
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A Long March 2F rockey carrying China's Tiangong-1 space station module is awaiting lift-off on Thursday.
The Guardian World News Warren Murray 2011
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Shabono our intrepreter nearly tired one of his ankles falling him - The bottoms are extencive and tolerable land Covered with tall grass & prickley pears The hills & mountains are high Steep & rockey.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Since my arrival in its vicinity, and its waters are forming and petially perpetually breake with emenc waves on the Sands and rockey
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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The Country on either hand is high broken and rockey; the rock is either soft brown sand stone covered with a thin strata of limestone, or a hard black rugged grannite, both usually in horizontal stratas and the Sandy rock overlaying the other.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Colour, and appers to be navagable for Small Craft, The Minetarras inform us that this river heads in the 1st of the rockey Mountains & passes through a broken Countrey. its head at no great distance from the Yellow Stone River The Countrey about this river as described yesterday we took the Meredian altitude 59° 50 '0 "back observation and found the Latd. to be 47° 0' 24 "
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Confined in a Chanel of about 20 yards between rugid rocks for the distance of a mile and a half and a rapid rockey Chanel for 2 miles above.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Side, & again contracts into a narrow chanel divided by a rock I returned through a rockey open countrey infested with pole-cats to the village where I met with Capt.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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