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mentoftJie United States. | Prepared for the press \ by Paul Allen, Esq. 



I Revised and abridged by the omission of unimportant de- \ tails, ivith an 



introduction and notes, \ by Archibald M'-VicTiar. | In two volumes. \ Vol. 



I. [II.] I Neiv York : \ Harper & Brothers, Publishers, \ Franklin 

 Square. \ 1SG8. 



Two vols. ISnio, some of the issues forming part of Harpers' series, " The 

 Family Library.''^ Vol. I, pp. i-vi, i*-v*, vii-li, 53-371, 3 maps. Vol. 



II, pp. i-x, 1 1-395, 3 maps. ( > Vol. II, Appendix, ^'■Further enumeration 

 and description of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, and Plants noticed dur- 

 ing the Fxpedition,''^ pp. 339-378.) 



By the obliging atteutious of the publishers themselves, I have been 

 pat in possession of the following memoranda of the dates of the suc- 

 cessive issues, most of which consisted of 250 copies : September, 1842; 

 January, 1843; May, 1843 ; January, 1844; July, 1845; April, 1847; 

 May, 1850; August, 1851; June, 1855; April, 1858; November, 1860; 

 February, 1868; March, 1871 (vol.11); April, 1872 (vol, I); Febru- 

 ary, 1874 (vol. II) ; December, 1875 (vol. I.) — in all fourteen issues of 

 the whole work, under sixteen different dates. 



The advertisement of this edition, dated 1842, fully explains its char- 

 acter, in the following extract: " The 'work [i. e., the Biddle-Allen edi- 

 tion J being now nearly out of print, it seemed to the publishers a suit- 

 able time to put forth an edition of the Journal of Lewis and Clarke 

 pruned of unimportant details, with a sketch of the progress of mari- 

 time discovery on the Pacific coast, a sumraarj- account of earlier 

 attempts to penetrate this vast wilderness, and such extracts and illus- 

 trations from the narratives of later travellers, led by objects of trade, 

 the love of science, or religious zeal, as the limits of the undertaking 

 would allow. [The editor's, M'Vickar's, introduction, pp. vii-li of vol. 

 I, consists of this matter.] The matter of the original journal is indi- 

 cated by inverted commas, and where portions of it, embracing minute 

 and uninteresting particulars, have been omitted, the leading facts 

 have been briefly stated by the editor in his own words, so that the con- 

 nection of the narrative is preserved unbroken, and nothing of impor- 

 tance is lost to the reader. . . . The seventh chapter of the second 

 volume [of American edition of 1814], giving an account of the quadru- 

 peds, birds, and plants found on the Columbia and its tributaries, has, 

 to avoid unnecessary interruption of the course of the narrative, been 

 transferred to the appendix." 



This, then, is an editorial abridgment, or digest, of the original ; 

 faithfully, and, on the whole, judiciously executed. The natural-his- 

 tory chapter, besides being relegated to an appendix, is transposed as to 

 its botanical and zoological portions, the botany coming first in the 

 original, the zoology in the present edition ; it is, furthermore, like the 

 rest of the work, abridged at the editor's discretion, the omissions being- 

 indicated by asterisks; a new feature, moreover, is introduced, being 

 foot-note references to the pages of the body of the work on which the 

 various species were before mentioned. This is a valuable set of cross- 

 references, for the narrative accounts scattered through the work are 

 often no less important than the formal notices themselves. 



Resume of the several publications noticed in the foregoing pages. 



I. Jeffers-on's Message and accompanying documents, 8vo,* Wash- 

 ington, A. & G. Way, 1805. — Ths same, Svo, New York, Hopkins and 



