| "The
hills approach the river verry close on either side. River narrow,
& no timber except some scattering pine on the hills & hill
sides.…The hills are generally bluffs of various coloured earth,
most commonly black with different qualities of stone intermixed."
—Meriwether Lewis, May 27, 1805 |
"As
we passed on it seemed as if those seens of visionary inchantment
would never have an end; for here it is too that nature presents
to the view of the traveler vast ranges of walls of tolerable workmanship.
So perfect indeed are those walls that I should have thought that
nature had attempted here to rival the human art of masonry had
I not recollected that she had first began her work." —Meriwether
Lewis, May 31, 1805 |
