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be narratives of the expedition. These tbree classes of books will be 

 successively considered. 



I. — THE JEFFERSON PHODEOME ATs^D THE APOCRYPHA. 



On tlie 19th of February, 1806, the expedition being then still in 

 progress. President Jefferson addressed to Congress a communication, 

 entitled as follows : — 



[1806.] Message \from the \ President of the United States \ communicat. 

 ing I Discoveries \ made in exploring \ the Missouri, Bed River and 

 Washita, \ hy \ Captains Lewis a7id Clarlc, Doctor Sibley, \ and Mr. 

 Dimbar ; | with \ a Statistical Account | of the \ Countries adjacent. \ 

 — I February 19, 1806. | Bead, and ordered to lie on the table. \ — | 

 City of Washington : \ A.& G. Way, printers. | . . . | 1806. 

 Svo. pp. 1-171, 3 I. {State Papers.) 



It is necessary to examine this article closely, in order to see how the 

 apocrypha depend upon it. The " message" itself is a curt official letter. 

 Next comes a semi-official letter to the President from Captain Lewis, 

 dated Fort Mandan, April 17, 1805, giving a progress-report of the 

 expedition at that date, &c. "A Statistical View of the Indian Nations 

 inhabiting the Territory of Louisiana* and the Countries Adjacent to 

 its Northern and. Western Boundaries," by Captain Lewis, is the second 

 of the accompanying documents ', an elaborate set of statistics of various 

 tribes, with miscellaneous particulars. It is these last, patched together, 

 that constitute the " Statistical View" printed in the various apocrypha. 

 The third paper is Dr. Sibley's "Historical Sketches of the Several 

 Indian Tribes in Louisiana, south of the Arkansa Eiver, and between 

 the Mississippi and the River Grand." These " Sketches" are transferred 

 lodily, with some abridgment and mutilation, to the apocrypha. The 

 fourth article consists of "Observations made in a Voyage commenc- 

 ing at St. Catharine's Landing, on the East Bank of the Mississippi, 

 l)roceeding downwards to the jMouth of Eed Eiver, and from thence 

 ascending that Eiver, the Black Eiver, and the Washita Eiver .... 

 from the Journals of William C. Dunbar, Esq., and Dr. Hunter." 

 With omission of some meteorological tables appended to the original, 

 this document, like Dr. Sibley's, is introduced into the apocrypha with 

 little change. 



The President's message and accompanying documents also appear, 

 without the same caption, and otherwise moditied in form, in other offi- 

 cial archives of Congress. The same year, 1806, it was again reprinted 

 in New York, as a pamphlet, which I have not seen; the title of which, 

 nearly identical with that of the original, except as relates to the im- 

 print, is kindly furnished by Mr. F. B. Perkins, of the Boston Public 

 Library, as follows : — 



[1806.] Message | from the \ President of the United States, \ communi- 

 cating [Discoveries \ made in exploring the \ Missouri, Bed Biver and 

 Washita, \ by \ Captains Leicis and Clarice, Doctor Sibley \ and Mr. Dun- 

 bar ; \ tcith I a Statistical Account \ of the \ Countries adjacent. \ — | 

 Bead in Congress, February 19, 1806. | — | New-Yorlc: \ Printed by 

 HopTcins and Seymour, \ and sold by G. F. HopMns, No. 118, Pearl- 

 street I — I 1806. 



One vol. 8vo, pp. 128+1 folded I. not paged. 



* On Captain Lewis's map, the name " Louisiana" lies across the present nor theru 

 boundary of the United States. 



