ervant of Captain Clark.
=Index=: =D= At Clatsop, 44; on the Columbia, 59; their overland
expedition, 60, 64, 66; mouth of the Columbia the objective, 66; objects
of the enterprise, 66; personnel of the expedition, 67; route followed
by, 67; information collected, 67; winter at Fort Clatsop, 67. =Bib.=:
_History of the Expedition to the Pacific Ocean_, Philadelphia, 1814;
new ed., New York, 1843. In addition to other reprints, three recent
editions are: the Chicago edition of 1902, with introd. by Dr. J.K.
Hosmer; the edition of 1893, in 4 vols., with copious notes and other
critical equipment by Dr. Elliott Coues; and the even more elaborate
edition prepared by Dr. R.G. Thwaites, New York, 1905, 8 vols. For biog.
of Lewis and Clark, _see_ Jefferson's _Life of Lewis_ in _Old South
Leaflets_, no. 44, and in the Hosmer edition; _Cyc. Am. Biog._

=Lexington.= =Hd= Skirmish at, 103.

=Liard River.= A tributary of the Mackenzie; rises in the Yukon
district, south-west of Frances Lake, about lat. 61 deg., long. 131 deg.
Its length is about 550 miles. Explored by McLeod in 1834, and by Campbell
in 1840. The Upper Liard is known only by Indian report. Fort Simpson,
of the Hudson's Bay Company, is at the mouth of the main river; and Fort
Liard at the confluence of Black River and the Liard, not far from the
point where British Columbia, the Yukon, and the North-West Territories
meet. =Index=: =D= Operations of Hudson's Bay Company on, 123.

=Libel.= =Mc= Mackenzie's bill on, 163.

=Liberal.= Newspaper published at Toronto. =Index=: =B= Radical journal,
founded after Liberal victory of 1874, 235.

=Liberal Party.= =B= Growth of, 209; overthrows Sir John A. Macdonald's
government, and Ontario coalition government, 209-210. _See_ Reform
Party.

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