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Twenty years before Lewis came to town, his mentor Thomas Jefferson wrote about the view from this rock. Jefferson's comments on the landscape were published in Notes on the State of Virginia. That book provided a model for Lewis as he recorded his observations of the west. As Lewis gathered supplies here, he may have followed in the footsteps of his mentor and taken in this view.
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia · United States
