Sitka Spruce

May 23 1805

Clark: May 23, 1805

...d Current more rapid than yesterday, in maney places I saw Spruces on the hills Sides Stard. this evening.

May 23 1805

Lewis: May 23, 1805

...more rappid, & the country much the same as yesterday. some spruce pine of small size appears among the pitch pine, and reather more rock than usual on the face of ...

May 24 1805

Clark: May 24, 1805

...untrey on the Stard. Side found it broken & Dry Some pine, Spruce & Dwarf Cedar on the hill sides, I Sent one man 10 mile out he reports a Similarity of Countrey ba...

May 24 1805

Lewis: May 24, 1805

... hills; the tops of the hills covered with scattering pine spruce and dwarf cedar; the soil poor and sterile, sandy near the tops of the hills, the whole producing ...

May 27 1805

Lewis: May 27, 1805

...e, which is imbeded in the Clay and sand. some little pine spruce and dwarf cedar on the hills. some coal or carbonated wood still makes it's appearance in these b...

Jul 17 1805

Clark: July 17, 1805

...reat deel of Scattering pine on the mountains, Some aspin, Spruce & fur trees took a meridian altd. which gave for Lattitude 46° 42' 14" 7/10 N we proceeded on ver...

Sep 9 1805

Lewis: September 9, 1805

...ogether pine principally of the longleafed kind, with some spruce and a kind of furr resembleing the scotch furr. near the wartercourses we find a small proportion ...

Sep 12 1805

Clark: September 12, 1805

...passing up each fork. The Timber is Short & long leaf Pine Spruce Pine & fur. The road through this hilley Countrey is verry bad passing over hills & thro Steep hol...

Nov 2 1805

Clark: November 2, 1805

...bered, as also the high mountains on each Side, with Pine, Spruce pine, Cotton wood, a Species of ash, and alder. at 17 miles passed a rock near the middle of the r...

Nov 4 1805

Clark: November 4, 1805

...the timber on the edge of the Prarie is white oke, back is Spruce pine & other Species of Pine mixed Some under groth of a wild crab & a Specis of wood I'm not acq...

Nov 13 1805

Clark: November 13, 1805

...ing, as we are in a Cove & the Mountains verry high & Pine Spruce verry high & thick Cannot deturmine the procise course of the winds. I walked to the top of the f...

Dec 8 1805

Clark: December 8, 1805

... lands good roleing much falling timber, lofty Pine of the Spruce kind, & Some fur, passed over a high hill & to a Creek which we kept down 11/2 miles and left it t...

Feb 5 1806

Clark: February 5, 1806

...the timber of this neigh-bourhood. it appears to be of the Spruce kind. it rises to the higth of 160 or 180 feet very Commonly and is from 4 to 6 feet in diameter,...