Trail of Tears State Park, MO After an early start, Nathaniel Pryor, the hunter who had been lost the past two days, is found. As they work their way ten miles up the Mississippi, Lewis observes the limestone lining the shores and hills.
Trail of Tears State Park
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Pryor Found
Pryor the man who had been absent and lost for the last two days hailed, we passed the river and took him in he was much fatiequed with his wandering and somewhat indisposed—
—Meriwether Lewis
Local Limestones
imbeded in this stone there are detached pieces of a stone resembleing flint of yellowish brown colour which appear at some former period to have been woarn smothe and assume different shapes and sizes as the pebbles of runing streams usually do tho’ now firmly united and forming a portion of the solid mass of this rock— many parts of the rock has also a considerable portion of grit or sand in it’s composition tho’ I was informed at Cape Jeradeau where the same rock appears, that it makes very good lime—
—Meriwether Lewis
