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Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

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1806

Message | from the | President of the United States, | communicating
| Discoveries | made in exploring the | Missouri, Red River,
and Washita, | by | Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, | and
Mr. Dunbar; | with | a Statistical Account | of the | countries adjacent.
| Read in Congress, February 19, 1806. |

New-York: | Printed by Hopkins and Seymour, | and sold by G. F.
Hopkins, No. 118, Pearl-Street. | 1806. |

8vo; title, verso blank; "Message", pp. [3] and 4; "Extract of a Letter
from Captain Meriwether Lewis, | to the President of the United States, dated |
Fort Mandan, April 17th, 1805", pp. [5]–8; "A Statistical View", pp. [9]47;
"Historical Sketches", pp. [48]–62; "To General Henry Dearborn",
signed by John Sibley, pp. 63–81; "Distances up Red river by the course of
the river", pp. 82–83; "Observations", pp. 84–125; "Meteorological
Observations", beginning on p. 125–128; table of "Siouxs proper" to follow
p. 25. Signatures: [A]–Q in fours.

Copies: AAS (uncut copy); BPL; CHC; LCP; NYHS; WHS.