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their journey useful to science and to their country. It was the 

 request, and particular wish, of Captain Lewis, made to me in 

 person, that I should make drawings of such of the feathered 

 tribes as had been preserved, and were new. That brave soldier, 

 that amiable and excellent man, over whose solitary grave in 

 the wilderness I have since shed tears of affliction, having been 

 cut off in the prime of his life, I hope I shall be pardoned for 

 consecrating this humble note to his memory, until a more able 

 pen shall do better justice to the subject. 



