PRELIMIIIRT DOCUMENTS. 



I. Original Memoir suggestive of the Expedition. 



II. Mr. Calhoun's Letter of sanction of it. 



III. Employment of a Mineralogist and Geologist. 



IV. Policy of granting Permits to take away Minerals from the Indian 



Country. 

 V. A Topographical Engineer and Astronomer ordered from the Military 

 Academy at West Point. 

 VI. Vll. Military Orders of Generals Brown and Macomb. 



