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from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents |
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Difficulty of Biddle's task
The service of Biddle
in editing the journals of the Lewis
and Clark expendition, was a far more
difficult literary
undertaking than is commonly supposed. The entire
mass of notes which he had before him may be
thus roughly computed:
| Lewis and Clark journals (Amer. Philosophical Society codices) |
900,000 | words |
| Gass Journal (as printed) | 83,000 | " |
| Ordway Journal—unknown, but possibly | 100,000 | " |
| 1,083,000 |
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