[Original Dedication.] 



TO THE 



Hon. JOHN C. CALHOUN, 



SECRETARY OF WAR. 



Sir : Allow mc to inscribe to yoii the following Jour- 

 nals, as an illustration of my several reports on the mineral 

 j^eography of the regions visited by the recent Expedition 

 under Governor Cass. 



I beg you will consider it, not only as a proof of my 

 anxiety to be serviceable in the station occupied, but also 

 as a tribute of individual respect for those exertions which 

 liave been made, during your administration of the War 

 Department, to develop the physical character and re- 

 sources of all parts of our Western country; for the 

 patronage it has extended to the cause' of geographical 

 science ; for the protection it has afforded to a ver' 

 extensive line of frontier settlements by stretchino- -^y^s 

 cordon of military posts around them ; and for the ndng all 



it has bestowed on one of the humblest cultivate 



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 natural science. ^^^^^^^i^^. 



HEXRY R. SCHOOLCR.perfectly 

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