Fort Clatsop, salt works established — Patrick Gass: January 4, 1806
Traveling toward the salt works, the party crossed what they believed was the final creek on their route. Just past it, Gass's companion shot an elk, providing breakfast before they continued on. They pushed through low ground and a half-mile-wide marsh with knee-deep water, then emerged into a beautiful five-mile-wide prairie stretching about 30 miles along the seashore from Point Adams to a peak called Clarke's View. Another creek through the prairie proved impassable without a boat, so they camped on its bank and ate the elk's tongue for supper.
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.
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We continued on, and passed the head of a creek which we supposed was the last on our route to the salt works. Immediately after passing the creek, the man with me killed an elk; we then halted and had breakfast of it, and afterward went on. We got into low ground, passed through a marsh about half a mile in breadth, where the water was knee deep; then we got into a beautiful prairie about five miles wide, which runs along the seashore about 30 miles from Point Adams on the south side of Hayley's Bay, in nearly a southwest course, and ends at a high point of a mountain, called Clarke's View on the seashore. Through this plain or prairie runs another creek, or small river, which we could not cross without some kind of craft; so we camped on the creek and supped on the elk's tongue, which we had brought with us.
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