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deal of water & contains as much cotton? timber as either of the others. They Saw buffalow & antilopes, wild cherries red & yallow berrys, goose berrys & e. abound in the river bottoms, prickley pairs on the high plains the Captains had a Meridian altitude & the Latitude produced was 47º, 24"-12", North, the after part of the day proved cloudy. Capt. Clark measured the Cach? River and found the one to the right hand to be 186 yards wide of water strikethrough and the left hand fork 372 yards wide & rapid. the right hand fork folling the other at a Stand & clear. the right hand fork & the river which fall into it is couloured, and a little muddy. Several of the party complain of their feet being Sore by their wallking in the Sand & cut by the Stones. we to be Sure have a hard time of it oblidged to walk on Shore & haul the towing line and 9/10 of the time barefootted, in the evening the men all returned had been about 15 miles up each river but could not determine which was the nor which would be our best course. our officers & all the men differ in their oppinions which river to take. we expect the right hand fork would take us too far to the North, the left hand fork we expect heads in the mountains. however the officers conclude unclear unclear