Westport, KY[1]No known record exists of Lewis’s travel between Big Bone Lick and Louisville. We do know that he had left Big Bone Lick before Thomas Rodney arrived there on 10 October and that he arrived at … Continue reading On or near this date, Lewis is about halfway between Big Bone Lick and the Falls of the Ohio. Contemporary traveler Thomas Rodney sees a mosquito and reports on the insects that he has encountered on the Ohio River.
Mosquito
Aedes aegypti
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
First Ohio Mosquito
The first musketo I have seen I killed just now. We have not been troubled on the river or on shore with insects of any kind.
—Thomas Rodney[2]13 October 1803. Dwight L. Smith and Ray Swick, ed., A Journey Through the West: Thomas Rodney’s 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997), … Continue reading
Hog Island
At 5 o’clock we passed the above island, it being, including the bars above and below, about two miles long; but it is a young island. The wood on it being small, we saw cattle, hogs, and turkies on it, and as the hogs were most numerous, we call it Hog Island.
—Thomas Rodney[3]Ibid.
Notes
| ↑1 | No known record exists of Lewis’s travel between Big Bone Lick and Louisville. We do know that he had left Big Bone Lick before Thomas Rodney arrived there on 10 October and that he arrived at the Falls of the Ohio on 14 October. Using Thomas Rodney’s journal and Cramer’s 1802 river guide, The Navigator, one conjecture is that Lewis stopped for the night at Westport on or near this date. |
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| ↑2 | 13 October 1803. Dwight L. Smith and Ray Swick, ed., A Journey Through the West: Thomas Rodney’s 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997), 118. |
| ↑3 | Ibid. |
