Below Thebes, IL The expedition visits an American settlement on the Spanish (Missouri) side of the Mississippi. They meet four boats and describe area fossils and petrified wood. Pryor fails to return from hunting and Clark, who remains ill, is given ‘grouse‘ soup.
Tywappity Settlements
arrived oposite three new habitation of some Americans who had settled under the spanish government, this settlement is on a bottom called, Tywappety [Tywappity Bottom],
—Meriwether Lewis
Clark’s Soup
saw some Heth hens or grows [grouse]— one of my men went on shore and killed one of them, of which we made soome soup for my friend Capt. Clark who had been much indisposed since the 16th inst. this bird shall hereafter be more particularly discribed.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Commercial Traffic
overtook two keels from Lousville bound to Kaskaskias loaded with dry goods and whiskey, belonging to Mr. Bullet . . . . met two Keeled boats loaded with firs for New-Orleans;
—Meriwether Lewis
Fossils
this quality so remarkable and observable in the waters of Ohio of scementing masses of pebble earth and sand, as also pretrefying vegitable and animal substances exposed to it for a length of time; this quality seems to be possessed equally by this river; of this I have had many evidences; beside those large masses of conjealed or scemented pebble, I met with several pieces of wood that had been petrefyed and afterwards woarn away by the gravel and the agetatition of the water untill they had become smothe and had the appearance of stone common to runing streams; tho’ the grain of the wood was quite distinct.
—Meriwether Lewis
Lost Hunter
one of my men [Nathaniel Pryor] who went out to hunt this morning has not yet come up, had several guns fired to bring him too, and the horn freequently blown but without effect—
—Meriwether Lewis
Notes
| ↑1 | William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), 526. |
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