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NARRATIVE 
OF THE 
UNITED STATES 
EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 
DURING THE YEARS 
1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. 
BY 
CHARLES' WILKES, U. S. N., 
COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION, 
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ETC. 
IN FIVE VOLUMES, AND AN ATLAS. 
VOL. I. 
PHILADELPHIA: 
LEA & BLANCHARD. 
1845. 
