[26] Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Count de Lacépède (1756-1825), became Buffon's assistant in the Jardin du Roi about 1784, and continued the _Histoire naturelle_ after the latter's death. Lacépède entered politics under Bonaparte, and was successively senator (1799), grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor (1803), and minister of state (1809). After the Restoration, he was made a peer.--ED. [27] The distance travelled since leaving Royal Gorge indicates Beaver Creek, in eastern Fremont County, as probably the one here called Castle Rock Creek.--ED. [28] Another name for the Nez Percés. See Franchère's _Narrative_, in our volume vi, note 145.--ED. [29] This description of the two species of bears occurs under date of May 3, 1806. See _Original Journals of Lewis and Clark Expedition_, v, p. 65.--ED. [30] On Lahontan see J. Long's _Voyages_, in our volume ii, note 3; also Lahontan, _Voyages in North America_ (Thwaites, ed., Chicago, 1904).--ED. [31] John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743-1823) was a Moravian evangelist to the Indians of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and later a United States Indian agent. He was a careful student of aboriginal speech and customs, especially those of the Delaware, and was the author of several works on these subjects. Previous to this time he had published: _Account of the History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States_ (Philadelphia, 1818).--ED. [32] Vid. Trans. of the New York Literary and Philosophical Society.--JAMES. _Comment by Ed._ New York, 1815, p. 19. De Witt Clinton (1769-1828), the great promoter of the Erie Canal, was governor of New York from 1817 until his death, with the exception of one two-year term, beginning in 1822. The address referred to was delivered May 4, 1814; he was at that time president of the Literary and Philosophical Society.