LEWIS’S WOODPECKER. 
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their journey useful to science and to their country. It was the 
request, and particular wish, of Captain Lewis, made to me in 
person, that I should make drawings of such of the feathered 
tribes as had been preserved, and were new. That brave soldier, 
that amiable and excellent man, over whose solitary grave in 
the wilderness I have since shed tears of affliction, having been 
cut off in the prime of his life, I hope T shall be pardoned for 
consecrating this humble note to his memory, until a more able 
pen shall do better justice to the subject. 
