"bold rockey Shore"

"bold rockey Shore". . , "Camped on a Bed of Stones" , On November 6, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition paddled down this section of the Columbia River in search of a suitable location to make the evening camp. The rocky shore, dense forests, and "high and rugid" terrain made it difficult to find a "suffcently large and leavil" area for 33 people to camp. , After traveling 29 miles that day, the explorers found a spot on this side of the river, just downstream from here. William Clark wrote: "Encamped under the hill on Stones Scarcely land Sufficent between the hills and river Clear of the tide for us lie. Cloudy and rain all wet and disagreeable." , Fanny's Namesake , Lewis and Clark named many rivers, rocks, and places after people they knew. Near here, the explorers passed an area they named "Fanny's Island and bottom' presumably in honor of Clark's sister Frances. Fanny's bottom became "Fanny's Valley" on Clark's map, perhaps because he had second thoughts. (in geographic terms, a bottom is low land along a river) "Fannyt;s Island" is now known as Crims Island. , November 6, 1805 , The Indians leave us in the evening, river about one mile wide hills high and Steep on the Std. no place for several Miles suffcently large and leavil for our camp we at length Landed at a place which by moveing the Stones we made a place Sufficently large for the party to lie leavil on the Smaller Stones Clear of the Tide Cloudy with rain all day we are all wet and disagreeable, had large fires made on the Stone and dried our bedding and Kill the flees, , {The rest of this marker is too damaged to transcribe.}