Journal entry · September 18, 1803
Meriwether Lewis: September 18, 1803
Meriwether Lewis
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): Pomeroy, OH
18th September The morning was clear and having had every thing in readiness the over night we set out before sunrise and at nine in the morning passed Letart’s falls; being nine miles distant from our encampment of the last evening — this rappid is the most considerable in the whole course of the Ohio, except the rappids as they ar called opposite to Louisville in Kentuckey — the descent at Letart’s falls is a litte more than 4 four feet in two hundred fifty yards.
Source: Lewis’s 1803 journal, printed in Quaife, The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway (Wisconsin Historical Society, 1916). Public domain.
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Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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