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The Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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Three young men, led by Israel Mitchell, departed from an Indiana town on the 21st ult. for an exploratory expedition to the Pacific Ocean via northern U.S. posts and Green Bay, aiming to gather topographical information on the Columbia River mouth amid U.S. government inaction.
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A singular Expedition.—Left this town on 21st ult. for the Russian settlement on the Pacific Ocean, Israel Mitchell, a citizen of this place, in company with two other young men, Stephen Howard and Martin Smith. The party intend visiting the northern posts of the United States, and passing the coming winter at the Scotch settlement near Green Bay. The Spring following they mean to set out for the Pacific Ocean, calculating to follow the Northern boundary line of the United States to where it strikes the Pacific. Their object is purely to acquire topographical information. The occupation of the mouth of the Columbia River, by the United States, has been for some years a desideratum with Mr. Mitchell; and, as our last Congress seems to have abandoned that object, he, unaided by the general government, and without even individual assistance, has attempted to explore that inhospitable region.
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21st Ult.
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Israel Mitchell, a citizen of this place, in company with two other young men, Stephen Howard and Martin Smith, left this town on 21st ult. for the Russian settlement on the Pacific Ocean. The party intend visiting the northern posts of the United States, and passing the coming winter at the Scotch settlement near Green Bay. The Spring following they mean to set out for the Pacific Ocean, calculating to follow the Northern boundary line of the United States to where it strikes the Pacific. Their object is purely to acquire topographical information. The occupation of the mouth of the Columbia River, by the United States, has been for some years a desideratum with Mr. Mitchell; and, as our last Congress seems to have abandoned that object, he, unaided by the general government, and without even individual assistance, has attempted to explore that inhospitable region.