427 



One vol., Uo, pp. i-xxiv, 1-6G3, 1 folding and 2 full-page maps. ( > Chap . 

 XXI V, "A general Description of the Beasts, Birds, and. Plants, (fer.^ 

 found by the Party in this Expedition,^^ pp. 450-489.) 



"The present edition is printed nearly verbatim from the original ; the 

 sheets of which were forwarded to this country by the American pro- 

 prietors : the only liberty that has been taken with the langnage, has 

 been merely the correction of a few inadvertent grammatical or typo- 

 graphical errors. The American copy contained an Appendix drawn up 

 by Captain Lewis on the State of the Indian Nations ; . . . . but as 

 the subject is altogether of a local nature, and the observations possess 

 little interest for the British reader, it has been omitted." Besides the 

 whole of the Appendix, which occupies 89 pages of the original, the Life 

 of Lewis and the American editors Preface are also omitted ; in place 

 of the latter being introduced a new preface by the Englisli editor. 

 This preface consists chiefly of a sketch of other explorations in the 

 West, especially Lieutenant Pike's (which Kees had edited in 1811) ; it 

 also includes President Jefferson's " Message," extract of a letter from 

 Captain Lewis to the President, with bibliographical references to Jef- 

 ferson's pamphlet of 1806, to the English edition (1809) of the apocrypha 

 already quoted, and to Gass's Journal, which latter is spoken of in more 

 complimentary terms than those used by the American editor. Except- 

 ing these points and those mentioned above in quotation-marks, this 

 English 4to edition is identical with the original American one. 



It was succeeded the next year by a 3- vol. 8vo reprint, as follows: — 



[1815.] Travels \ to the source of \ the Missouri River \ and across the \ 

 American Continent \ to \ the Pacific Ocean. \ Performed by order of \ the 

 Governmentof the United States, \ i»f/te?/ears 1804,1805, anfZ 1806. | — | 

 By Captains Leivis and Clarlie. \ — | Published from the Official Report, \ 

 andillustratedbyamap of the route, \ and other maps. \ — | Anew edition, 

 in three volumes. \ Vol. I. [II, III.] \ — | London : | Printed for Long- 

 man, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, \ Paternoster- Row. \ 1815. 



Three vols., Svo. Vol. I, pp. i-xxvi, 1 I. not paged, 1-411, maps 3. 

 Vol. II,pp.i-xii, 1-434, maps 3. Vol. Ill, pp. i-xii, 1-394. (> Vol. 

 Ill, Chap. XXIV, "A general description of tkebeasts, birds, plants, &c., 

 found by the party in this expedition,''^ 2U^' l-"3.) 



Except in form, and in some minor details of typography incident to 

 resetting of the type, this is identical with the 4to edition of 1814. 



This edition, convenient in form, and otherwise unexceptionable, is a 

 favorite one, perhaps oftener met with, even in this country, than the 

 original of 1814. 



It was re-issued under date of 1817, apparently from the same plates; 

 though I observe, on the last two pages of vol. I, a slight discrep- 

 ancy in the set of the type. If re-issued subsequent to 1817, as may 

 easily have been the case, the fact has not come to my notice. These 

 two English 3 volume 8vo editions of 1815 and 1817 may be quoted 

 without distinction, as the pagination is the same. 



Meanwhile, in the year 1815, the work was translated into German 

 and published,in that language. The abridged title of a German ver- 

 sion, not seen by me, is thus given by Kayser ; I regret that I am unable 

 to complete the title : — , 



