PARKER'S EXPLORING TOUR

(Recommendations from the 1842 edition)

RECOMMENDATIONS.

FROM H.HUMPHREY, D.D., PRESIDENT OF AMHERST COLLEGE.

I have read Mr.Parker's Exploring Tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, with uncommon interest. It embodies a great mass of facts and many valuable reflections, which cannot fail of making it highly instructive as well as entertaining to every class of readers. I am glad to learn that a second edition has been so soon called for. It is not a book of lofty pretensions, but of unadorned verity and high intrinsic merit. The friends of the missionary cause, and of the aboriginal tribes beyond the mountains, who have not yet seen this volume, have a rich reversion before them.

H. HUMPHREY.
Amherst College, Nov.7, 1839.

FROM REV. EDWARD HITCHCOCK, A.M., PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL HISTORY, AMHERST COLLEGE

I am happy to concur in the above views respecting the Exploring Tour of Mr. Parker.

EDWARD HITCHCOCK

FROM NOAH WEBSTER, L.L.D. NEW HAVEN.

New Haven, Nov.12th, 1839.
Dear Sir,
I have read your account of your journey over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, with much satisfaction. It contains much valuable information respecting a part of our continent, which is imperfectly explored. I hope the publication of the book will amply reward your labors.

N. WEBSTER.

FROM JAMES RICHARDS, D.D.PROFESSOR IN AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

I have read the Tour of the Rev. Mr. Parker among the Western Indians, and was much gratified by his statements. His travels across the Rocky Mountains, and his visit to the far distant tribes beyond, are connected with many striking facts and incidents, which cannot fail to interest the inquisitive and reflecting. In my judgement, the work is calculated to benefit the cause of Science and of Missions.

JAMES RICHARDS.
Auburn, Nov.14,1839.

"This is a work of extraordinary merit, and furnishes rich food alike to the man of science and the unlearned. It is one of the most deeply interesting volumes that has ever issued from the American press; inasmuch as it presents, in a plain and unaffected style, stores of knowledge concerning a portion of our country which heretofore has been but partially explored. This is a volume which commends itself to the careful perusal of men of every class, and, so marvellous are its truths, that it needs but the merit of being a work of fiction, to gain for it universal circulation." --- Missionary Herald, Cincinnati.

"Mr. Parker's observations on the geology and geography of the country through which he passed are alone richly worth twice the cost of his volume. To the friends of the unfortunate Red Man his work is a noble weapon; to the advocates of Foreign Missions an unanswerable evidence of their necessity and value. It is illustrated by a new map from actual observation of the territory of the United States west of the limits of Missouri, and a lithograph exhibiting the extraordinary rock formation through which the Oregon has worn its way. The book is written in a plain, familiar style, and is intended to embody only such facts as may be said to come absolutely within the knowledge of the author. We earnestly recommend it to the attention of the entire reading public." ---New Yorker, May 19, 1838.

Acknowledgements are due to numerous editors of periodicals and papers who have given the work a favorable notice.