﻿156 Covii.le: Three Editions of Makcv's Report 



The House 1854 edition, which probably appeared before the 

 Senate 1854 edition, bears on the title page the name A. O. P. 

 Nicholson, as the publisher, while the lithograph plates of the 

 botanical appendix, as well as the map, were made by Lawrence, of 

 New York. The main part of the narrative is set up in type of 

 precisely the same size as that used in the Senate 1853 edition, 

 but it is clear from the lack of uniformity in broken letters, an occa- 

 sional letter from a wrong font, and a running forward or backward 

 of single words or single lines that the matter was all reset. The 

 pagination however, as far as page 117, the end of Captain Marcy's 

 own report, is the same. Beginning with page 118 the meteoro- 

 logical tables, etc., were set up in different type so that a conspicu- 

 ous difference in the pagination follows. Dr. Torrey's botanical 

 appendix, exclusive of the introductory matter, begins on page 248 

 and extends to page 270, followed, as in the other edition, by the 

 explanation of plates. It is clear that the copy used in setting up 

 this second edition was not the original manuscript, but consisted 

 of the printed pages of the earlier edition. For practical purposes 

 all citations of the botanical portions of the two are identical with 

 the exception that in the House 1854 edition the corresponding 

 pages arc numbered 32 less than in the Senate 1853 edition, page 

 280 corresponding to page 248, and so on throughout. The 

 lithograph plates of the House 1854 edition are perhaps slightly 

 inferior to those of the 1853 edition. 



The Senate 1854 edition differs somewhat mOre from the other 

 two, but the differences are almost wholly typographical. The 

 publisher, according to the title page, was Beverly Tucker. The 

 botanical lithographs and the map, as in the Senate 1853 edition, 



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in larger type than either of the earlier editions and occupies about 

 ten pages more. The botanical appendix is set up, on the other 

 hand, in smaller type than in either of the other editions and ex- 

 tends, exclusive of introductory and supplementary matter, from 

 pages 267 to 289. In general the corresponding pages contain 

 the same matter as in the other editions, but in a few cases from 

 one to several lines are run backward or forward upon the adjacent 

 pages. ,,-om the internal evidence furnished by occasional typo- 

 graphy! differences it is clear that the printed pages of one of the 



