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Show • •• • • t ' f c ' , • • •• ,• ' ''c' • • ' • c t . ' . " ' . . . . ... • ' • • 'If • • t • • • • r t • I • I If I I I .. . . . . . . . .. . . . ..: : .. .. . . .. . .. •. • .. .•. . ·. .. I ' e • ' I I . . . . . .. • •• • •• . • ' ..... c f ~ I f t .. ' .., . •'.•. ' ... . ·. . ... " .' \ ..•.. .. •. • • • • t • .. • . . . ~ . . . . • ~. .fl • ' ,.t • •••• • • ~ ~ .. · .... ~ .. , ~ IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATE S. JUNE 5, 1848. Resolved That the Secretary of the .S_ enate be authorized to contract for lithogr.a phi.n g and rintino' - twenty thousan d copt. es o f J . C . Fr6mont's Map of .O regon and Ca. hformCa , reducpe d froom t he on.· g m· a1 accordinoa to the projection to be fnrmsheu by the satd J · · Fremont. R esolved, That there be printed, for the use of the Senate, the same number. of eopi~s of J. C. Fremont' s G eograph 1' ca 1 Memoir on Upper California, and in il.l ustratwn of. lus Map of Oregon and California; the manuscript and printing of said mcm01r to be subject to the revision and correction of the author. Attest : JUNE 15, 1848. ASBURY DICKINS, Sec·refa1·y of the Senate. ' Resolved That there be printed, for the use of ihe Topographical Bureau.., one hundred copies of ~r6mont's Map of Oregon and California, and the .sam~ number of Fr6mont's Geographical Memoir (in illustration of his map) .ef Upper Cahferma. Attest : ASBURY DICKINS, ' Secretary of the Senate. • '· '. .,J • • ' . . ' (>' "' J ) . ) ~ ' ' , J ... ' .., . GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. . ~ .. On the second day of February, in the year 1847, during roy absence on my third expedition of topographical survey, in the western part of this con tin en t, a resolve was passed by the Senate directing the construction of two maps-one of the central section of the Rocky mountains, an •l the other of Oregon and Upper California- from the materials collected by me in the two previous expeditions, and with the additions which the then existing expedit ion might furnish; and Mr. Charles Preuss, my assistant in the first and second expeditions, was employed to commence the work. On roy return to the United States, in the month of September last, I found Mr. Preuss closely engaged upon the work on which the Senate had employed him; · and, from t at time to the present, I have myself given all the time that could be spared from other ·engagements to supply the additions which the last expedition has ·enabled me to make. Conceiving that t}je map of Oregon and California was of t'he most immediate and pressing importance, I first directed my attention to Its preparation, in order to bring it into a conditten as soon as possible to be laid before the' Senate; which is now done. In laying this map of Oregon and Upper California before the Senate, I deem it proper to show the extent and general character of the work, and how far it rna y be depended on as correct, as being founded on my own or other ~urveys, and how far it is conjectural; and only presented as the best that is known. In extent, it embraces the whole western side of this continent between the eastern base of the Rocky mountains and the Pacific ocean, and between the straits of Fuca and the Gulf of California, taking for its outline, on the north, the boundary line with Great Britain, and on the south, including the bay of San Diego, the head of the gulf of California, the rivers Colorado and Gila, and all the country through which the line of the late treaty with Mexi co would run, from El Paso del Norte to the sea. To corop Jete the 'View in that q11arter, the valley of the Rio del Norte is added, from the head of the river to EI Paso del Norte, thereby in cluding New Mexico. The map has been constructed expressly to exhibit the two countries of Oregon and the AI ta California together. I t is ·b elieved to be the most correct that has appeared of ei ther of them; and it is certainly the only one that shows the stru cture and con ·figuration of the interior of Upper California . The part of the map which exhibits Oregon is chiefly copied. • |
