On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
A pirogue is used to lighten the keelboat's load, but it springs a leak. Near the Virginia state line (present West Virginia), Lewis buys a canoe which also leaks. They stop two miles later to repair the leaks and dry wet cargo.
From the journals...
Sept. 4th 1803.
The water is so low and clear that we see a great number of Fish of different kinds, the Stergeon, Bass, Cat fish, pike, &c. we fixed some spears after the indian method but have had too much to attend to of more importance than gigging fish.—
Largemouth Bass, Micropterus salmoides
Sept. 4th 1803.
about two miles above my camp passed the line, which divides the States of Virginia and Pensylvania on the east side of the river and on the West that of Pensylvania from the State of Ohio; this line is made vi[si]ble from the timber having been felled about sixty feet in width, the young timber has spring up but has not yet attained the hight of the other that it can with ease be traced with the eye a considirable distance
