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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

Copyright 1905, by The Arthur H. Clark Company

All Rights Reserved

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

Text:
CHAPTER I--Departure from Pittsburgh.
North-western slope of Alleghany Mountains.
Rapids of the Ohio 39