Meriwether Lewis: September 6, 1803
September 6th 1803. The fogg was as thick as usual this morning detained us untill ½ past 7. O’C. when we set out — observed the Thermometer in the air to stand at 71° Water 73°. struck on a riffle which we got over with some difficulty and in the distance of two miles and a half passed 4 others three of which we were obliged to drag over with horses; the man charged me the exorbitant price of two dollars for his trouble.
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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