HISTORY

OF

OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.

TRANSLATOR AND LIBRARIAN TO THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES; AUTHOR OF A
MEMOIR, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL, ON THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA,

PUBLISHED IN 1840, BY DIRECTION OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

"The possible destiny of the United States of America, as a Nation of a Hundred
Millions of Freemen, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws
of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august con-
ception "Coleridge's Table Talk.

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1844.

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MY VENERABLE AND EVER KIND FRIEND,

MAJOR-GENERAL MORGAN LEWIS,

LATE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK;

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED,

AS A MARK OF RESPECT AND GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE.

ROBERT GREENHOW.