 Cairo, the 1 5th of November, 1788, the day before he was to set out for the head of the Nile; on which day, however, he ended his career and life: and thus failed the first attempt to explore the western part of our northern continent.  The Port Folio - Page 1371814Full view - About this book
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Nicholas Biddle - Columbia River - 1814 - 518 pages
...journey to Egypt. I received a letter from him, full of sanguine hopes, dated at Cairo, the fifteenth of November, 1788, the day before he was to set out for the bead of the Nile; on which day, however, he ended his career and life: and thus tailed the first attempt... | |
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...journey to Egypt. I received a letter from him full of sanguine hopes, dated at Cairo, the fifteenth of November, 1788, the day before he was to set out for the head_ of the Nile ; on which day however, he ended his career and life: and thus failed the first attempt... | |
 | 1840 - 326 pages
...set down and dismissed. Mr. Jetferson, in speaking of Ledyard's undertaking, erroneously calls it " the first attempt to explore the western part of our northern continent." The next enterprise of moment was the remarkable one of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, which was prosecuted... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...the journey to Egypt. I received a letter from him, full of sanguine hopes, dated at Cairo, the 15th of November, 1788, the day before he was to set out...our northern continent. In 1792 I proposed to the APS, that we should set on foot a subscription to engage some competent person to explore that region... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...the journey to Egypt. I received a letter from him, full of sanguine hopes, dated at Cairo, the loth of November, 1788, the day before he was to set out...our northern continent. In 1792 I proposed to the APS, that we should set on foot a subscription to engage some competent person to explore that region... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...letter from him, full of sanguine hopes, dated at Cairo, the 15th of November, 1788, the day before be was to set out for the head of the Nile, on which...our northern continent. In 1792 I proposed to the APS, that we should set on foot a subscription to engage some competent person to explore that region... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...letter from him, full of sanguine I hopes, dated at Cairo, the 15th of November, 1788, the day bet fore he was to set out for the head of the Nile, on which day, howV ever, he ended his career and life ; and thus failed the first attempt j to explore the western... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1884 - 782 pages
...journey to Egypt. I received a letter from him, full of sanguine hopes, dated at Cairo, the fifteenth of November, 1788, the day before he was to set out...attempt to explore the western part of our northern continent."3 "The Russians were the first to avail themselves of Cook's discoveries," says Greenhow... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - Northwest Coast of North America - 1884 - 768 pages
...journey to Egypt. I received a letter from him, full of sanguine hopes, dated at Cairo, the fifteenth of November, 1788, the day before he was to set out for the head of the ENGLISH EFFORTS. 3o3 Nile; on which day, however, he ended his career and life : and thus failed the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1884 - 408 pages
...set down and dismissed. Mr. Jefferson, in speaking of Ledyard's undertaking, erroneously calls it " the first attempt to explore the western part of our northern continent." The next enterprise of moment was the remarkable one of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, which was prosecuted... | |
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