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The Great River Platte - Missouri Equator July 21, 1804 - After covering 14 miles in the rain the party reached the Great River Platte. The highlands which they had seen on the south for the last 8 or 10 miles stopped abruptly. Captains Lewis and Clark ascended the Platte for about one mile, reported the current very rapid and divided into a number of channels, none of which were deeper than 5 or 6 feet. The Captains estimated the Platte River to be about 600 yards wide at its mouth and about that many miles from St. Louis.
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