Meriwether Lewis: September 2, 1803
Septr 2ed Set out at sunrise 2 miles to a riffle got out and pulled the boat over it with some difficulty— 9 Oclock reched Logtown riffle unloaded and with much difficulty got over detained 4 hours. The hills on either side of the ohio are from 3 to 400 feet which runing parrallel to each other keep the general course of the river. The weather is extreemly dry. supposed I had gotten over Logtown riffle but find ourselves stranded again suppose it best to send out two or three men to engage some oxen.
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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