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merely the illustrations of the English and American editions (which 

 were not all the same) but also a number of unpublished water colors. 

 The extant Seymour illustrations for the 1819-1830 expedition are 

 to be found in four lots : 



1. Atlas to the American edition of James' "Acount of an Expedition" : 



War Dance in tlie Interior of a Konza Lodge. 



Oto Council. 



Oto Encampment [pi. 5 in this paper]. 



View of the Rocky Mountains, on the Platte, 50 Miles from their Base. 



View of the Insulated Table Lands at the Foot of the Rocky Mountains 



[pl.ll]. 

 View of Castle Rock, on a Branch of the Arkansa, at the Base of the Rocky 



Mountains. 



2. The English edition : 



Distant View of the Rocky Mountains (in color) , vol. 1, frontispiece. 



War Dance in the Interior of a Konza Lodge, vol. 1, p. 126. 



Oto Council, vol. 1, p. 140. 



View of the Chasm through which the Platte Issues from the Rocky 



Mountains (in color), vol. 2, frontispiece. 

 Pawnee Council, vol. 2, p. 76. 

 Kiawa Encampment, vol. 3, frontispiece. 

 Kaskaia, Shienne Chief, Arrappaho, vol. 3, p. 48. 



3. The Coe Collection, Yale University Library (original drawings) : 



War Dance in the Interior of a Konza Lodge [pi. 2]. 



Pawnee Council [pi. 4]. 



View near the Base of the Rocky Mountains [pi. 6]. 



View Parallel to the Base of the Mountains at the Head of the Platte 



[pl.7]. 

 Cliffs of Red Sandstone near the Rocky Mountains [pi. 8]. 

 Hills of the Trap Formation [pi. 9]. 

 View on the Arkansa near the Rocky Mountains [pi. 10]. 

 Kiowa Encampment [pi. 12]. 

 Kaskaia, Shienne Chief, Arrappaho [pi. 13]. 



4. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (original drawing) : 



Oto Council [pi. 3]. 



Two other illustrations used in the James publications were not 

 Seymour's original work: "Skin Lodges of the Kaskaias" was by 

 T. R. Peale; the "Facsimile of a Delineation upon a Buffalo Robe," 

 of course, was merely a copy by Seymour of an Indian original 

 (Se3'mour's drawing of the latter is in the Coe Collection). 



Seymour joined Long's party at Pittsburgh some time in the spring 

 of 1819. As an artist he is first mentioned by William Baldwin, 

 physician and surgeon as well as botanist to the expedition, in a letter 

 to his friend William Darlington, Writing from on board the steam- 

 boat Westey^n Engineer^ Pittsburgh, May 1, 1819, Dr. Baldwin re- 

 marked that "Mr. Seymour [had] sketched a number of romantic 

 views" in that neighborhood (Darlington, 1843, p. 313). The official 

 report, however, said nothing of these drawings. 



