Journal Entry

William Clark: November 7, 1805

November 7, 1805
William Clark Near Pillar Rock, Columbia River Estuary, Washington Thwaites Vol. 3, pp. 210-212

Great joy in camp we are in View of the Ocian, this great Pacific Octean which we been So long anxious to See. and the roreing or noise made by the waves brakeing on the rockey Shores may be heard distictly.

The country on both sides of the river is broken. we proceeded on. passed several Indian villages. The water is Salt this evening.

Source: Thwaites, Original Journals (1904–05). Public domain. The party was in the Columbia estuary, not yet the open ocean.

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