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River Navigation
From: Bruce Stark
Date: 2003 Nov 28, 19:39 EST
From: Bruce Stark
Date: 2003 Nov 28, 19:39 EST
George,
On the 26th you wrote:
>I've been interesting myself in the celestial-navigation of Lewis and
Clark's famous journey across the American continent, and looking into some
of the volumes of Gary Moulton's edition of their journals. . . .<
Janice was going over the newspapers that had piled up while we were gone,
and noticed an article on Lewis and Clark that, though it doesn't answer any of
the questions you raised, will probably be usefull. Here are the more
interesting parts:
>VANCOUVER, Washington—
Where parts of the Missouri River run nearly strait today it corkscrewed 200
years ago. so much so that Lewis and Clark at least once had to coax their
boats up 36 miles of it to get 1200 feet rarther west.
Months later, on the way home, William Clark commented that the river
looked nothin like it did
