OCR Text |
Show DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit: . B£: lT REMEMB~RED, That on the twenty-second clay of Januar in thf th1rty-e1ghth yrat· of the Independence of the United States of America At 1814 Bra~forcl &. Inskeep, of the said. district, have deposited in this office Zhc ·title of~ ~ook, the nght whereof they clmm as proprietors, in the words following to 't· "H' . . . ' WI - 1story ot the Exped1t1on undct· the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Source~ of the i\'liss?uri, thence a~.:t·oss the U.ocky Mountains, and down th~ Rtver Columuaa to the Pac1fic Ooc:nn. Performed during the Years 1804-5-6 b order of th~ Govemment of the United States. Prepared for the p. b p' yl Allen, Esqu1re." ress Y au In conformity to the act ofCongr('ss of the United StAtes ftl d" " the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of m:' en 1 he An act for " to the a\lthors and proprietors of such copies during the tim ap~h c n.rts, and. books, "A J\d als.o to the ac t , ent i't.l eu.1 , "A. n act supplementary es erem mentioned'' to an act, entitled u An act fot the eneouragement of learnmg by securing the copt' f ' " b k t h 1 · ' es 0 maps charts and oo s, o t e aut 1ors and propnetot·s of such copies during the times t'h · ' • " tio. ned' ". and. ex t end m' g the b enef i ts t h ereofto the arts of designin"' en,.,e. re·J n menl-etchmg hastoncal and other prints." "' o· avmg, anr DAVID CALDWELL Clerk of the District of Pennsyln~ia. J=>REF .~.\CE. lN })rescntin~ these volum~s to tltc public. tlw edito1• tHves equally to himself ami to ot.het·s, to stah· th<· circumstances which have JU'r<·cdc·d the publication, and to eXIllain his own share in <•ompjling them. It was the original clrsign or captain L~wis to have been himself the editor of his own travels. antl lw was on his way towards l:.lliladelphia fo1· that put•po~c whrn his sudden death ft•ustrated these infcntions. Afte1· a. <·onsi~ dcrable and unavoidable dc~lay, the papers c •.·nn<· ct<'d with tl1e expedition wer·c depositrcl with anothC't' gf'nt h·man. who, in order to render the lapse of time as little injurious as possible, Jli'Oceedcd immediately to collect and investigate all the materials within his reach. Of the incidents of each clay during the expedition, aminute jour·nal was kept by captain Lewis ot· t:aptaiu Clal'k, and sometimes by both, which was aftrt•w;u·ds r evi!>cd and mtlargcd at t)w diff<'rcnt pm·iods of h.·isut·e "hich occunecl on the route. Thrsc W<'t'C c~u·rfully prl'usecl in (•onjunctiorr with captain Clark himself. "ho was aule fl'om his own t•et! ollcction ofthcjout·ney, as well as ft~om a constant r·rsidence in Louisiana. since his t·ctut•n, to supply a g•·eat mass of explanations, and much additional infot·mation with t·cgard to pat•t of the route which has been mort~ J'Ct·t•ut ly eXIllot·cd. Besides tllcse, recouL·se was had to the man user i pt jo ul'nal" |