Volume 13 — A JOURNAL OF TRAVELS INTO THE ARKANSA TERRITORY,

DURING THE YEAR 1819.

WITH OCCASIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS Of THE ABORIGINES. ILLUSTRATED BY A MAP AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS.

BY THOMAS NUTTALL, F. L. S.

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, &C.

PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THOS. H. PALMER. 1821.

EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit:

[L. S.] BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixth day of November, in the forty-sixth year of the independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1821, Thomas H. Palmer, of the said District, has deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

“A journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory, during the year 1819, with occasional observations on the manners of the Aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings. By Thomas Nuttall, F.L.S. Honorary member of the American Philosophical Society, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences, &c.”

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, “An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned.”—And also to the Act, entitled, “An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,” and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.”

D. CALDWELL,

Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

TO JOSEPH COREA DE SERRA, MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, &C. ZACCHEUS COLLINS, Esq. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, &C. WILLIAM MACLURE, Esq. PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, AND MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, &C. &C. JOHN VAUGHAN, Esq. TREASURER AND LIBRARIAN OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, &C. &C.

Gentlemen,

Permit me to lay before you, the humble narrative of a journey, chiefly undertaken for the investigation of the natural history of a region hitherto unexplored. Excuse the imperfect performance of the gratifying task which your liberality had imposed, but which was rendered almost abortive by the visitations of affliction.

If, in so tiresome a volume of desultory remarks, you should meet with some momentary gratification, some transient amusement, or ray of information, the author will receive the satisfaction of not having laboured entirely in vain.