NARRATIVE 
OF THE 
UNITED STATES 
EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 
DURING THE YEARS 
1838 , 1839 , 1840 , 1841 , 1842 . 
CHARLES WILKES, U. S. N. 
COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION, 
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ETC. 
IN FIVE VOLUMES, WITH THIRTEEN MAPS. 
YOL. Y. 
PHILADELPHIA: 
1849 . 
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