UNITED STATES

EXPLORING EXPEDITION.

BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS.

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, AND AN ATLAS.

VOL. III.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED BY C. SHERMAN.

1844.

ENTERED, ACCORDING TO THE ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1844,

BY CHARLES WILKES, U. S. N.,

IN THE CLERK's office of THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.