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which we left at noon and camped on the bank of the creek where we had scarsely room to sleep came 17 1/2 miles his day. saw high mountains to the south of us covred with snow which appears to lay their all the year round. scarsely any feed for our horses Friday 13th Sept. 1805. cloudy. we got our horses up all but the one Capt. Lewis rode and a colt which our young Indian rode we hunted some time for them but could not find them then all but 2 or three loaded the horses and proceeded on a short distance passed a warm spring which nearly boiled where it issued out of the rocks a short distance below the natives has dammed it up to bathe themselves in and the water in that place is considerable above blood heat. it runs out in sundry places and some places cooler than others several of us drank of the water it has a little sulpur taste and verry clear these springs are verry beautiful to see and we think them to be as good to bathe in &c. as any other ever yet found in the United States. a handsom green or small meadow on the creek near unclear springs a little above we could not get along the Indian trail for the timber which had been blown down in a thicket of pine &c. So we went around a hill came on the trail again and proceeded on untill about 11 oclock and halted to dine and let our horses feed on the main fork of the creek where was several beaver dams. Capt Lewis and the men who stayed back to hunt their horses joined us but had