Excerpt from The Life of Geo; B. McClellan J. Stevens, Governor Of the Territory of washington, ste vens being the senior Ofiicer. Starting from Washington, May 9th, 1853, Gov. Ste vens proceeded at once to St. Paul's, while mcclellan took passage for San Francisco, the plan being that Stevens should proceed with his party in an westerly direction, and mcclellan with his in 'an easterly direction, until a junction was effected. Stevens had with him a large and well appointed party, with Professor Spencer F. Baird as naturalist, Dr. John Evans as geologist, and Mr. Stanley as artist. They had abundance of instruments and sup plies. Mcclellan, onthe contrary, was obliged to organize his expedition on the Pacific, the whole region of which was, at that time, wild with excitement concerning the r cent discovery of gold in California. His' instructions were to, proceed to San Francisco, collect such information as he could there, and either there or at his next appointed rendezvous, at Astoria, 'to organize a corps of savane, guides, hunters, trappers, and mule packers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.