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. | February 19,
1806. | Read,
and ordered to lie on the table. |
City of Washington: | A.
& G. Way, Printers. | 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]–65; "Historical Sketches", pp. [66]–86; "To General Henry
Dearborn", signed by John Sibley, pp. 87–112; "Distances up Red
river by
the course of the river", pp. 113–115; "Observations",
etc., pp. 116–171;
"Meteorological observations", pp. (7); two
folded broadsides, to follow pp. 30
and 34. Signatures; [1]–22 in
fours, 23 in two (the last leaf blank).
This is the original and official
edition, as well as the first separate publication
with data on the
expedition of Lewis and Clark.
Copies: AAS; BM;
BPL; C; CHC; CHS; CU; EI; HC; LCP;
MHS; NA; NL; WD; WHS.
