Coues.] •^•J [Jan. 20, 



rivers, p. 255. (12) Blank p. 254. (13) Summary statement of the rivers, 

 etc., pp. 253-248. (14) Distances of sundry places up the Missouri to the 

 Mandans, p. 247. (15) Weather diary, etc., Jan. 1, 1804, to April 7, 1805. 

 pp. 248-216. (16) Blank p. 215. 



Note. — This is one of the most important, as it is also the most miscel- 

 laneous, of all the codices. Both Lewis and Clark have a hand in it, as 

 does also another person. The progress of the Expedition covered by it 

 is as above said. It has all the matter of the residence at Fort Mandan. 

 The Journal proper covers pp. 94-178 of Vol. i of the Biddle print, but 

 the codex contains much other matter. Items (1), (2), (t)) and (11) were 

 not used by Biddle. Item (10) is a most elaborate invoice of the goods, 

 stores, etc., summarized by Biddle, p. 2 of Vol. i. Item (8) gives on pp. 

 208-211 a detailed invoice of the natural liistory specimens, curiosities, etc., 

 sent to .lefferson April 7, 1805. Item (13), the "Summary Statement," 

 is not tlie original of tliat printed by Biddle, Vol. ii, p. 462 seq., being an 

 early rough draft of Clark's, afterward improved upon in another codex ; 

 and it also includes places and distances on the Missouri above the Man- 

 dans, and on the Yellowstone, from Indian information gathered before 

 April 7, 1805. Item (15), the Weather Diary and Remarks, is the original 

 of Biddle's print. Vol. ii, p. 476, to the date April 7, 1805, on p. 484, but 

 the corresponding "Remarks and Reflections" of tlie Biddle print, pp. 

 495-505, are compiled onl}' in part from this item, in part from another 

 weather diary of same dates. 



Codex D. — One of the thirteen red morocco cover books. Biddle de- 

 posit. Biddle's No. 4. In perfect order, brass clasp half remaining. 

 Cover clean and scarcely warped. Folios 70, pages 140, besides two fly- 

 leaves marbled one side like inside of covers ; there should be folios 76, 

 pages 153, but several leaves are torn out at end (these are preserved, 

 being now pirt of Codex Fe, which see). Tliis is Lewis' Journal, com- 

 plete, April 7. 1805, to May 23, 1805, from the Mandans to a little above 

 Musselshell river, and correKjionding in dates with Biddle's pp. 177-226 of 

 Vol. i ; but the printed text follows mainly a Clark Journal I have not 

 found.* 



Contents. — (1) Blank, marbled flyleaf and pp. 1, 2. (2) .Icnirnal as 

 above said, pp. 3-139. (3) Page 140, reading backward, is the end of the 

 remarks belonging to the weather diary for April to June, 1805, torn out 

 and now a part of,Codex Fe. The Journal itselt is Intact for the dates said. 

 (4) Marbled flyleaf, blank, but for a penciled memorandum of mine to 

 above effect. 



Codex E. — One of the thirteen red morocco cover books. Biddle de- 

 posit. Biddle's No. 5. In perfect order inside, brass clasp gone, covers 

 clean, one of them creased crosswise. Folios 78, pages 156, and both 



■*One of Clark's Journals is now in the possession of his .son, Mr. Jefferson K. Clark, of 

 St. Louis. I am not informed of the dates covered by this volume, nor of the nature of 

 its fon tents. 



