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Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark

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Thompson, Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford

Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, December 16, 1800 Thomas Jefferson introduces Caspar Wistar to the work of William Dunbar, excited at the prospect of a scientific correspondent "on the very verge of the great terra incognita of our western continent."