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the river more shallow passed clifts of rocks & high rough mountains on each side. passed the mouth of a creek on the Stard. side. the warter of a ridish coulour considerable rapid and deep. abt. 7 pikes wide. 2 hunters on a head. we passed where Capt. Lewis had left 3 or 4 deer skins the 10 unclear & proceeded on the river shallow were oblidged to hale the large canoes the most part of the time. passed several creeks? clifts of rocks steep up from the river about 2 or 3 100 feet in many places. some of the knobs are covred with grass & a fiew scattering pitch pines on them. the river crooked & difficult some places shole & some deep holes in which we caught a nomber of trout. Capt. Clark was near being bit by a rattle snake which was between his legs as he was standing on shore a fishing. he killed & shot several others this afternoon. came miles and camped on L.Side at a narrow plain on which was some old Indian camps. Friday 16th August 1805. a clear but a verry cold morning the thurmometer stood at 47 the water so cold that 242