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Show D!STRlCT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO Wl'%' t (L. S.) BE IT REl\tlEMBERED, That on the eleventh day of i\p1 il in the thirty-first year of th~.; Independence of the ~United State~ of A mcrica, A. D. 1807, David M'Kecl1an, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, tht Title of a Book the Hight whereof he claims as Proprietor in the "orcls following, to wit ! u A Jnlll'n:tl of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps { I f D iscover) , under the command of C<<pt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the A.rmv of 1 he United St~tt>s, from the mouth of the rin:!r Missouri tht·ough the interior 1-arts of N orth America to the P.1cific Ocean, d:11·ing the years 1804, 1805 :.md 1806. Co11ts.ining an authentic rc:lu.tion of the most intert! ting- tram;:.ctions during the expqiition,-A descript1on of the count1 y,-.-And an nccount oi' its inJ.:{hitants, soil, clim: ttc.•, cu1·ioHit i(·s, and vegetable and auimal productinns.Dy Pntricl: Gn8~·, on~ of the pei·sons; t'mplo~ eel in th(~ Expc .. rlition. '\Vith Ge ogr:.~.phical a.ml E~plu.Jiillory Note:; b) the Publif,.J1Br." In Conformity to the Act of the Cong-ress of the U11itecl StateG, intituled, " An Act for the Encouragement of Learnin r;, by securing the Copies of .1\laps, Charts, and Books, to tht A.n.thors at.ll Proprietors of such Copies during the Times therein n1enrionc<l" And alao to the Act, entitled " An Act c;upplctnt::ntary to Act, entitled, " An Act for the Enconr[lg-em~nt of Learning, by securing the Copies of 1\'bps, Charts, ~nd Hooks, to tbe Authors and P roprietor~ of !:itH.:h Copie~ during thl! Time5 thert:in mentioncu;' e!nd t!~:tcnding the Bend1ts thereof to t he: r\ rts of designing, engrad11g, and etchiug his to~ rical <.4lld other Prints." D. CALD\VELL, Clc.rk of t.~f! Di~t1·ict of Pc>nn~yh1ani~o PREFACE BY THE PUBLISHER. OF the various publications which unite amusement a11d information, few can be justly held in higher estimation than the Journals and Narratives of Travellers and Voyagers: and in our own highly favoured country, the diffusion of general knowledge, the enterprizing spirit of the people, their commer-ial pursuits and habits of emigration, render such works particularly valuable and interesting; while the vigorous and unrestrained mind of the free A· merican, by amplifying and embellishing the scenes presented to its view, enjoys the choicest luxuries of the entertainment they are calculated to afford. l f it is conceded that discoveries n1ade in North America are more impo1·tant to the people of the United States than those made elsewhere, it will not be difficult to shew that none could have been made of so much importance to them in any part of the world as in the lal'ge tracts of country through which the late expedition, undet· the command of Captaiu Lewis and Captain Cl::\rke, passed. For if we take a -view of the different discoveries and settle1nents pre-viously n1ade, we will find that those tracts tht·ough which the Missouri and Columbia rivers, and their branches flow, comtnonly called unkno<rvn 'regions, were the only pat·ts remaining unexplored, which could b~ considered valuable. |