Note 182 — Evans’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles—1818 (continued 4)

In 1803, President Jefferson secured a small appropriation from Congress, which enabled him to carry out a long-cherished plan of sending an exploring party across the continent. May 14, 1804, the expedition of Lewis and Clark started up the Missouri River, reached the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia, November 1, 1805; and returned to St. Louis, September, 1806. See Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Thwaites’s ed., New-York, 1904)—Ed.