Below present Fountain Creek, IL While Lewis travels to Cahokia by land, Clark takes the boats nearly 14 miles up the Mississippi passing romantic cliffs and a difficult rock.
A Plan of the Several Villages
Thomas Hutchins, 1778
Thomas Hutchins, A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina, 1778.
Romantic Cliffs
Set out this morning before sun rise, passed the upper point the Island at two miles, In this Course I observed (1), Several caves, also a number of Indented Arches of deferent sises in the Clifts on the Larbd. Side, which gave it a verry romanteck appearance
—William Clark
Difficult Rock
I came to on Lbd. side for the men to eate Dinner above a rock forming a worft [wharf] into the river 200 feet, as the Current of the river sets imedeately against this rock, we had some difecualty in passing it— this Rock appears to be Composed of Grit well calculated for Grind Stones—
—William Clark
Late Delivery
at the mouth of this Creek I intended to land and take in Some Provisions which was to be delivered to me at this place— by enquriey I was Informed (by Mr. Blean [Daniel Blouin] the owner of the place) that no provisions had arrived. he “expected it every minete,”
—William Clark
