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tion, when bis literary structure was nearly or quite complete. It 

 was til us left for the editor, (whom popular esteem has credited with 

 the labor of forming the work,) only to obtain a sketch of the life of 

 Captain Lewis from President Jefferson, and to place his name on the 

 title page. All of this he states in the Preface, but neglects to name 

 the industrious and judicious editor who wrought the work ready to liis 

 hand; yet emblazons liis own name in the place of honor on the title." 

 I do not undertake to defend Mr. Allen for suppressing Mr. Biddle's 

 name, in doing which, as well as in refraining from mention of Gass, 

 he evinces a desire to place himself in solitary prominence in connection 

 w?th the great work; but he certainly gained the right, moral and legal, 

 to appear as the preparer of the work for the press after Mr, Biddle, 

 "from caprice or business abstraction", had abandoned the under- 

 taking. 



It is not within the scope of the present article to offer any general 

 commentary or account, historical or critical, either of the nature of the 

 expedition itself, or of the character of the work which was one of its 

 results. The whole matter has passed into history, and the subject 

 become "classic." I have alread}^ quoted the chapter of the work 

 which alone bears formally and specially upon zoology, though inci- 

 dental observations upon natural history are scattered throughout both 

 volumes. In this connection, however, I should not omit to note a para- 

 graph of the editor's preface by which it appears that a separate pub- 

 lication upon the natural- history observations and collections was then 

 contemplated. Mr. Allen says : " The present volumes, it will be per- 

 ceived, comprise only the narrative of the journey. Those parts of the 

 work which relate to the various objects of natural history, observed or 

 collected during the journey, as well as the al[)liabets of the Indian 

 languages, are in the hands of Professor Barton, and will, it is under- 

 stood, shortly appear." Having never seen or heard of any publication 

 by Professor Barton on the subject, 1 am forced to the conclusion that 

 this projet was never carried out. Thus it would appear that the net 

 results of the exi)edition, as far as natural history is concerned, are 

 contained in the single chapter above cited. This subject will be 

 resumed after examination of the various subsequent editions of " Lewis 

 and Clarke"* with which we have to do. 



During the same year (1814), the work was published in London, 

 under the editorship of Thomas liees, in 1 vol. 4to, with the following 

 title :— 



[1814.] Travels \ to the | Source of the Missouri River | and across the | 

 A^nerican Continent \ to the \ Pacific Osean. \ Performed \ by order of the 



. Government of the United States^ \ in the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806. | 

 — I By Captains Lewis and Clarke. \ — | Pahlished from the Official 

 Beportj I and \ illustrated by a map of the route, \ and other maps. \ — | 

 London: \ Printed for Longman, Hurst, Bees, Or me, and Brown, \ Pat- 

 ernoster-Row. I — I 1814. 



*The orthography of tliis name is niicertain. It is written "Clarli" on the title, 

 page of the present edition, but "Clarke" on that of nearly all the others examined. 

 "Clarke" and "Clark" are both Avritten by President Jetferson in his official com- 

 munications, "Clarke" by Gass throughout his journal, and by Captain Lewis him- 

 self. Eef erring to the signatures of ihe private letters introduced in the "apocrypha," 

 I find that the Philadelphia edition of 1809 prints the signatures " Clark," while in 

 the Dayton edition of 1840 the signatures stand, "Clarke." The balance of evidence is 

 in favor of "Clarke." 



