At Fort Massac above the mouth of the Ohio, Lewis begins taking celestial observations but is deterred by clouds. A 14-man detachment from Fort Southwest Point that they had requested has not arrived.
Parts of a Sextant
Equal Altitudes
took equal altitudes A. M. but was prevented from compleating the observation by taking an observation in the evening by the clouds—
—Meriwether Lewis
Missing Tennessee Soldiers
Opposit the Mouth of Missourie
December 16th 1803Dear Brother
The men we expected to meet us at Fort Massac were not thure, which obliged us to Send an express to Tennessee for those men to percue us to our winter quarters,—, we Calld for a Detatchment of 14 men from that garrison to accompany us as far as Kaskaskees at wich place we intended to ogment our permonant party
Brother
Wm Clark[1]James J. Holmberg, ed. Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 60.
Notes
| ↑1 | James J. Holmberg, ed. Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 60. |
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