NEWS OF LEWIS AND CLARK.


National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser Vol V, no. DCCXLVI. Washington City: Samuel Harrison Smith, July 22, 1805. Folio (520 x 320 mm). 4 pp. Moderate toning and spotting throughout.Provenance: Lawrence Augustine Washington (ownership signature to upper right corner of p 1).WASHINGTON'S NEPHEW'S COPY of early report of Lewis and Clark expedition. From p 3: "Frankford, (K.) June 20: Our travellers have procured an animal which is called the wild Dog of the Praries. Those animals are about the size of a cat, and have dens under ground. They have procured also two magpies, natives of that climate. The Indians say there are wild sheep to be found higher up the river about the falls. A horn of the mountain ram hath been procured of a monstrous size ... The Dog, magpies, and remarkable horn, are in possession of a captain McClellan, who has undertaken to carry them to the city of Washington to the President, with the dispatches ... Our travellers experienced a severe winter; the snow was about two feet deep and the ice did not break up till late in March. They purchases some horses from the Indians, and broke them for the purpose of hawling their firewood. / The beaver are said to be numerous; the Indians catch them by a snare made of the bark of trees. / The Indians tend some corn, which does not exceed four or five feet in height and the ear shoots out but about one foot from the ground." Lawrence Augustine Washington was the son of Washington's younger brother Samuel.