330 Expedition^ £s?c. 



discussions concerning the topography and the mineral geo- 

 graphy of the countries west of the Alleghany mountains, of 

 a more general description than seemed compatible with the 

 humble style of a diary, which we thought convenient to re- 

 tain. The following paper from Major Long, comprises 

 moreover, many observations made on various journies pre- 

 vious to those detailed in the foregoing account, and in parts 

 of the country remote from those traversed by the Expedi- 

 tion.* 



* Most of the collections made on this expedition have arrived at Phi- 

 ladelphia, and are in good preservation. They comprise, among other 

 things, more than sixty prepared skins of new or rare animals, which 

 have been depiosited in the Philadelphia Museum; several thousand in- 

 sects, seven or eight hundred of which are probably new; five hundred 

 have already been ascertained to be so, and have been described. 



The herbarium contains between four and five hundred species of 

 plants, new to the Flora of the Uqited States, and many of them supposed 

 to be undescribed. 



Many of the minerals, collected by Mr. Jessup, were left at Smithland, 

 Ky. A suite of small specimens, adapted to the illustration of the geology 

 of the country from the Alleghanies to the Rocky Mountains has been 

 received. 



A collection of terrestrial and fiuviatile shells was also made. Of these 

 more than twenty new species have already been described and published. 

 The organic reliquiae collected on the voyage from i ittsburgh to St. Louis, 

 have not yet been received in Philadelphia, but are daily expected. 



The sketches executed by Mr. Peale amount to one hundred and 

 twenty-two; of these twenty-one only were finished, the residue being 

 merely outlines of quadrupeds, birds, insects, &c. 



The landscape views, by Mr Seymour, are one hundred and fifty in 

 number: of these, sixty have been finished. 



We take this opportunity to express our acknowledgments of the polite- 

 ness of Messrs. Price and Morgan, who have kindly franked the transpor- 

 tation of our collections from New Orleans to this city. 



END OF THE NARRATIVE. 



