[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 11th Quite warm to day. We travled 4 miles & made A short halt then travled 3 1/2 miles & camped A little below the junction of the North & south forks of the Platt River. I felt quite unwell. The use of fresh meet does not as yet agree vary well with me. We see but few Buffalo to day some Antelope & Deer &c. 8 1/2 miles.
Professor Pratt informed me that He took an observation for the Longitude May 7th on the opposite bank of the Platt from whare Freemont gives the Longitude in his travels. Professor Pratt made the Longitude to be 100°5'45" making it two seconds of a degree less than Freemont ownly about 10 rods which was vary Close calculating. He also found the Lat 1/2 a mile west of this nights encampment to be 41°7'44".
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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