Journal entry · September 3, 1803
Meriwether Lewis: September 3, 1803
Meriwether Lewis · Fort McIntosh, Beaver, Pennsylvania
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): mouth Poorhouse Run, PA
Sept. 3rd
Very foggy this morning. Thermometer 63° Ferrenheit, immersed the Thermometer in the river, and the murcury arose immediately to 75° or summer heat so that there is 12° difference is sufficient to shew the vapor which arrises from the water; the fogg this prodused is impenetrably thick at this moment; we were in consequence obliged to ly by untill 9 this morning Mr Gui Briant arrived with two boats loaded with firrs, he informs me that if I can reach, and get over the George-town barr 24 miles I can get on; this is some consolation. we set out at 9. this morning and passed a riffle just below us called Atkins’s got over with tolerable ease passed the mouth of big bever creek and came to ancor off Mackintosh being 2½ miles—discharge one of my hands.—passed the riffle below Mackintosh.—about three miles from this we stuck on another riffle the worst I think we have yet passed were obliged to unload and drag over with horses.—staid all night having made only six miles.
Source: Lewis’s 1803 journal, printed in Quaife, The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway (Wisconsin Historical Society, 1916), pp. 34-35. Public domain.
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The NPS atlas for this night
mouth Poorhouse Run, PA
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino)
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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