Fort Clatsop, salt works established — Patrick Gass: January 4, 1806

Patrick Gass · Fort Clatsop, salt works established · Thwaites Vol. Gass 1807 First Edition

on, and passed the head of a creek which we supposed was
the last in our rout to the salt works. Immediately after pass-
ing the creek the man with me killed an elk; when we halted
and took breakfast of it, and then went on. We got into low
ground, passed through a marsh about half a mile in breadth,
where the water was knee deep; then got into a beautiful
prairie about five miles wide, and which runs along the sea-
shore about 30 miles from Point Adams on the south side of
Hayley’s Bay, in nearly a south west course and ends at a high
point of a mountain, called Clarke’s view on the sea shore.
Through this plain or prairie runs another creek, or small
river which we could not pass without some craft: so we en-
camped on the creek and supped on the elk’s tongue, which
we had brought with us.