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398 has two Brigs in the Island trade, our expenses for exportation will be trifling:—

Just say (for me) to the young men of old Milton, Don't live & die in sight of your Father's house, but take a trip to Oregon! you can perform the journey in two years & I am sure you will never regret spending the time. But, if they should come to settle here, I would advise them, to bring a wife along, as ladies are (like the specie) very scarce. And if you have any maiden ladies about dying in despair, just fit up their teeth well, & send them to Oregon.

I shall have an opportunity to write to you again when our ships leave, which will be in July or August.."

Burnett in his "Recollections of an Old Pioneer," page 177, says: "During the winter of 1843–44 I had, while at Linnton, written some hundred and twenty-five foolscap pages of manuscript giving a description of the journey and of the country along the route, as well as of Oregon. I had stated the exact truth to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief; and my communications were published in the New York Herald, and were extensively read, especially in the western states."

The Herald (daily) of Saturday morning, December 28, 1844, says editorially: "We received yesterday, and publish in our columns this morning, some very interesting intelligence from the Oregon Territory, which is now a subject of very important negotiation between our government and that of England, and will probably be a matter of great debate in Congress."

The Herald published five different sections of the Burnett material in the form of five letters, four in the daily and one in the weekly. In addition to this, the weekly of December 28, 1844, published the same matter found in the daily of the same date. The daily of January 6, 1845, published the second and fourth sections—two letters in the same issue. It is evident that the Herald rearranged