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Ellicot’s journal of the boundary of Florida.
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to.
1815 Catalogue, page 123, no. 253, as above.
ELLICOTT,
Andrew.
The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, late Commissioner on behalf of the United States during part of the Year 1796, the Years 1797, 1798, 1799, and part of the
Year 1800: for determining the Boundary between the United States and the Possessions of His Catholic Majesty in America,
containing occasional Remarks on the Situation, Soil, Rivers, Natural Productions, and Diseases of the different Countries
on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Gulf of Mexico, with six Maps, comprehending the Ohio, the Mississippi from the mouth of the
Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico, the whole of West Florida, and part of East Florida. To which is added an Appendix, containing
all the Astronomical Observations made use of for determining the boundary, with many others, made in different parts of the
country for settling the geographical positions of some important points, with maps of the boundary on a large scale; likewise
a great number of Thermometrical Observations made at different times, and places.
Philadelphia: Printed by
Budd & Bartram, for
Thomas Dobson,
1803.
F213 .E46
First Edition. 4to. 231 leaves, including 77 at the end, with separate signatures and pagination, for the Appendix, containing
Astronomical and Thermometrical Observations, 14 folded engraved maps, by Lawson or Jones, after Ellicott and others, the maps in the first part lettered A to F, those in the Appendix numbered.
Sabin 22216.
This edition not in Boucher de la Richarderie.
This edition not in Boimare.
Coleman 3345.
Ellicott’s Preface is dated from Lancaster, July 22, 1803. On April 18 he had written from the same address to Jefferson:
“. . . I expect shortly to have a work out of the press on which I have been engaged for some time, and which has been much
longer delayed than I intended, owing to the little time I have to spare from manual labour, and the duties of my office--
As soon as this work is handed to the Publick, I intend publishing a small treatise on practical astronomy as connected with
geography, for the use of such persons as may be exploring our extensive western regions, and capable of making the necessary
observations.--
"In a few weeks I shall have another communication ready for the National Institute, a body of men, from whom I have received
much more attention than from any in my own country.--The celebrated la Lande is dead, he has not perhaps left an equal behind:--he
sent me his works shortly after I came to this place.--Delambre has likewise promised me a large work on which he has been
long employed, it will be published this summer.--
"My new pendulum, which was the work of five sundays, exceeds my warmest expectations.”
On December 19 [the copyright of the Journal is dated August 15] Ellicott wrote to Jefferson from Lancaster: “. . . In my journal which is published, I have given a new theory of the gulf stream, the principles of which I should be
glad to see discussed.--This part of the work cannot be considered as political, the public has nevertheless been informed
by the republican printer of this borough, that the whole is an attack upon you! if this is the case, it certainly was not
intended.--Truth has ever been my object, and I trust no circumstance will ever make me change it for a less valuable one.”
The republican printer was
William Duane, concerning whom Ellicott had written a long letter to Jefferson on December 1, 1803.
