INCLUDING CALIFORNIA AND OREGON, WITH MAPS OF THOSE REGIONS, AND OF "THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY." BY CHARLES WILKES, U.S. N. PHILADELPHIA: LEA AND BLANCHARD. 1849. 1251 Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN. PRINTED BY C. SHERMAN. (2) TO PETER FORCE, ESQ. PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE. SIR: As this small memoir has grown out of the request the Institute did me the honour to make at our late meeting, to prepare a correct Topographical Map of the Valley of the Sacramento, I beg leave to dedicate it to you, and to trust that the revival of the Institute may be attended with all the success that was fondly anticipated and desired by its founders. . |