Library of 19th Century Science:
The Golden Age of Geology

HMS Challenger



  NARRATIVE

OF THE

 UNITED STATES

 EXPLORING EXPEDITION

DURING THE YEARS

1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.

by

CHARLES WILKES, U.S.N.
COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ETC.

In Five Volumes

Volume II.

Philadephia
Lea and Blenchard

1845


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This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents in his personal library.

July, 2008.

Copyright © 2008 by Dr. David C. Bossard.  All rights reserved.