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gives the Sabine river ; and the other, on a scale of four miles to an inch, represents the meridian 
boundary line between the Sabine and Red rivers, the initial point being the place where the 
Sabine is crossed by the parallel of 32° north latitude. 
The surveys on the part of the United States of the portion north of the Sabine river were 
made by Lieutenant Colonel James Kearney, Lieutenant J. Edm. Blake, and Lieutenant L. 
Sitgreaves, Topographical Engineers; and along the Sabine river by Major J. D. Graham, 
Lieutenant T. J. Lee, and Lieutenant G. G. Meade, Topographical Engineers, The رب‎ on 
the part of Texas were by Messrs. P. J. Pellows, D. C. Webber, and A. B. Gray. 
UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION UNDER COMMANDER CHARLES WILKES, U. S. N. - 
** Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 
and 1842, by Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., commander of the expedition, member of the American 
Philosophical Society, &c., in five volumes, and an atlas. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard.— 
1845.” The map extends from the 40th to the 53d parallel, and from the 106th meridian to the 
Pacific, on a scale of about forty-eight miles to an inch. 
This naval exploring expedition arrived in Oregon in 1841. 
A party under Lieutenant Johnson started from Nisqually, crossed the Cascades near Mount 
Rainier, and reached the Columbia near the mouth of the Pisquose river. Crossing the Columbia, 
they proceeded to Fort Okinikaine, thence to the mouth of the Spokane, and thence north to 
Fort Colville. They then turned south, visited the Mission, and, continuing on, struck the 
Kooskoosky, about forty miles below where Lewis and Clarke struck it; thence they travelled 
to Fort Walla-Walla. From this point they returned to Nisqually by the valley of the 
Yakima river, crossing the Cascade mountains at its source. 
The Columbia river was surveyed as far up as Walla-Walla, and a party was despatched up 
the valley of the Willamette, and thence to us sources of the Sacramento, down which they 
travelled to the mee "e ۱ 
KENDALL'S NARRATIVE—SANTA FÉ EXPEDITION, 1841. 
تیوه‎ "Wr Texan Santa Fé Expedition, comprising a description. of a tour through 
ae سوه‎ p the Camanche and Caygua hunting grounds, with 
m want of food, losses from hostile Indians, and final capture of the 
praa ond dd al ‘naire tir prose «i Mri o? Manteo; with illustrations and a map. By George 
Wilkins Kendall; in two volumes. New York: Harper & Brother, 82 Cliff street —1844 °’ The 
map is on a scale of 45 miles to an inch, bounded on the north by the 38th parallel, on the 
east by the 91st — on the south by the 19th parallel, and on the west by the 103d 
meridian. 
- This expedition left Austin, the capital of Texas, on the 21st of June, 1841. Mr. Kendall, 
the author of the Narrative, accompanied the expedition from motives of mere curiosity and & 
desire of travel, being fully impressed with the idea that it was entirely a commercial expedi- 
tion, and not one that would render null his passport received from the Mexican consul at New 
Orleans. The entire military force consisted of six companies, averaging 40 men each. "There 
was a large train of wagons containing the property of merchants who accompanied the expe- 
dition to trade at Santa Fé. The whole party was under the command of General McLeod. 
Leaving Austin, they travelled north, crossed the Brazos at the Cross Timbers, and thence turn- 
— — Big Wichita, which they thought was Red river. They entered upon 
