 The object of the Expedition, is to acquire as thorough and accurate knowledge as may be practicable, of a portion of our country, which is daily becoming more interesting, but which is as yet imperfectly known.  Publication - Page 41936Full view - About this book
 | Hiram Martin Chittenden - Fur trade - 1901 - 440 pages
...Swift, topographical assistants. The instructions of the Secretary of War to Major Long stated that " the object of the expedition is to acquire as thorough...knowledge, as may be practicable, of a portion of the country which is daily becoming more interesting, but which is yet imperfectly known. You will... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned, Philip Patterson Wells - America - 1902 - 624 pages
...London. 1823. 3v. Phil. : Carey. 1823. 2v. [414 After a detailed narrative of the expedition through 41 a portion of our country which is daily becoming more...interesting, but which is as yet imperfectly known," there are several supplementary chapters on scientific subjects, including geology and geography :... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - Mississippi River Valley - 1905 - 338 pages
...branches, and then, in succession, Red river, Arkansa and Mississippi, above the mouth of the Missouri." ' 'The object of the Expedition, is to acquire as thorough...a portion of our country, which is daily becoming [4] more interesting, but which is as yet imperfectly known. With this view, you will permit nothing... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1918 - 974 pages
...succession, Red River, Arkansas, and Mississippi above the mouth of the Missouri.7' " The expedition was " 'to acquire as thorough and accurate knowledge as...more interesting, but which is as yet imperfectly known.8' " The company explored the Platte to the mountains, thence turning south divided into two... | |
 | Howard Ensign Evans - Science - 1997 - 288 pages
...and then, in succession, Red River, Arkansa [sic] and Mississippi, above the mouth of the Missouri. The object of the Expedition, is to acquire as thorough...interesting, but which is as yet imperfectly known. With this view, you will permit nothing worthy of notice, to escape 1 1 SETTING THE STAGE your attention.... | |
 | Sally A. Kitt Chappell - History - 2002 - 252 pages
...H. Long. It was commissioned in 1819 by the secretary of war, John C. Calhoun, with specific orders: The object of the expedition is to acquire as thorough...interesting, but which is as yet imperfectly known. With this view you will permit nothing worthy of notice to escape your attention. You will ascertain... | |
 | 306 pages
...reproducible images recording a more masculine engagement. Calhoun's instruction that the expedition seek "to acquire as thorough and accurate knowledge as may be practicable, of a portion of our country ... as yet imperfectly known" was conceived in a spirit of Enlightenment empiricism seemingly in tension... | |
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