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26 Pennsylvania, in 1807. It was the first publication of an authoritative book concerning the expedition. The first edition of the "History" of the Lewis and Clark expedition was published in Philadelphia in 1814. All prior books, purporting to be by them are spurious. I have a copy of the Gass "Journal" re-printed in London in 1808. I quote from the latter volume. On page 244, under date of November 23, 1805, he spells the name Clat-sop. He spells it Clatsop on pages 257, 261, 274 and 276.

In Coues' Henry and Thompson's "Journals" the name is spelled Clatsop, only, in numerous places in volume 2 from pages 756 to 815, inclusive.

Gabriel Franchere, a Canadian-Frenchman, was one of the clerks of the Astor expedition which came around Cape Horn on the ship Tonquin and founded Astoria, April 12, 181 1. He declined to enter into the employ of the Northwest Company when the Astor establishment was treacherously sold to the latter Company in October, 1813, by Duncan McDougal, a partner of John Jacob Astor. Franchere returned overland to Montreal in 1814, arriving there September first. He kept a private Journal which was written in French. This "Journal" was published in French, at Montreal, in 1820. Its title is "Relation d'un Voyage a la Cote du Nord-Ouest de 1' Amerique Septentrionable". On page 86 of this book the name of this Indian tribe is spelled Clatsoppe.

The name is spelled in several ways in early books and letters relating to Oregon: Clatsop, by Alexander Ross, who came to Astoria with the original Astor expedition, in 181 1, in his book "Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River" (1849), Page 87; Clatsop, by Ross Cox, who came to Astoria in 181 2 on the Beaver, in his book "Adventures on the Columbia River" (1831), page 116; Clatsop, in Wyeth's "Journal" of his first expedition, page 177; Klatsap, in Townsend's "Narrative," page 175; Clatsap, by Sir Edward Belcher, whose expedition visited the Columbia River in 1839, in his "Narrative" (1843), Page 307; Clatsop in Com. Wilkes' "Nar-