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EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS

1748-1846

VOLUME XIV

EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS

1748-1846

A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best

and rarest contemporary volumes of travel,

descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and

Economic Conditions in the Middle

and Far West, during the Period

of Early American Settlement

Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by

Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.

Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,"

"Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,"

"Hennepin's New Discovery," etc.

Volume XIV

Part I of James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition,

1819-1820

Cleveland, Ohio

The Arthur H. Clark Company

1905

The Arthur H. Clark Company

The Lakeside Press

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company

Chicago

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIV

PREFACE TO VOLUMES XIV-XVII. _The Editor_ 9

ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION FROM PITTSBURGH TO THE

ROCKY MOUNTAINS, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1819, 1820.

By order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of

War, under the command of Maj. S. H. Long, of the

U. S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the Notes of

Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the

Party. [Part I, being chapters i-x of Volume I of

the London edition, 1823.] _Edwin James_, Botanist

and Geologist to the Expedition

Dedication 33

Preliminary Notice [from Philadelphia edition,

1823] 35

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CHAPTER I--Departure from Pittsburgh.

North-western slope of Alleghany Mountains.

Rapids of the Ohio 39