Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents |
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[Extract from letter of Jefferson to William Carmichael,[3]
dated Paris, March 4, 1789.—
Ford, v, p. 75.]
My last accounts from Lediard (another bold countryman of ours)[4]
were from Grand Cairo. He was just then plunging into the unknown
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has promised me to go to America and penetrate from Kentucke to the
Western side of the Continent. I do not know whether you are
informed that in the years 1787–1788, he went from here bound for
Kamschatka, to cross over thence to the Western coast of our continent
& pass through to the Eastern one. He was arrested par ordre superieure
within two or three days journeys of Kamschatka, conveyed back
to the confines of Poland, & there turned adrift. He arrived here last
June, & immediately set out for Africa.
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