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"Prominently deserving of distinguished recognition is the service rendered to geographical science by the American explorer, Fremont" - King Frederic William IV, of Prussia, to Baron Humboldt
Every American reader is enchanted with the narriative of those intrepid and heroic explorations of Fremont, "The Pathfinder", which, in the language of Humboldt, - himself the greatest scientific explorer and geographer the world has ever seen, - "enriched every branch of natirual science, and illustrated a vast country before entirely unknown," and in appreciation of which he received from his admiring countrymen the highest tokens of honor, and from kingly hands, achnowledgements inscribed on tablets of gold.
Several exploring tours of the western portion of our continent, within the geographical boundaries of the country subsequently known by the title of Oregon, took place before that which was led by the brave Fremont, but none with such rich and varied results as the latter.
It being desirable for our government to become fully acquainted with the character of the vast territory between the southern geographical boundary of the United States and the Rocky Mountains, around the head-waters of the Missouri, FRemont was appointed to superintend that exploring tour, under the direction fo Colonel Abert, the chief of the topographical bureau at Washington, and by him projected and planned, with the approval of Secretary Poinsett. The great object of this expedition was to examine and report upon the rivbers and ocuntry between the fronteirs of Missouri and the base of the Rocky Mountainsl and especially to examine the character, and ascertain the latitude and longitude of that wonderful gateway, the South Pass, the great crossing place to those mountains on the way to Oregon.
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