Excerpt from The Quarterly of the Peace and Friendship, Vol. 18 While this article does not appear among the Selections, the subject matter is the same and the style is the same. Both may be traced to a common source in the chapter on V iew of the Country on the Columbia, in Brackenridge's Views of Louis iana, from which Benton quoted with credit in the Selections.8 Thus he quoted from Brackenridge the following paragraph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.