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TO OUR PATRONS.

AFTER the present number, the WESTERN JOURNAL will be enlarged to seventy-two pages, and printed on good book paper, and with new type, at three dollars per annum, payable in advance. Six numbers will hereafter constitute a volume, and a general index will be made up and published at the close of each; and subscribers may bind in one or in two volumes, according to their taste, at the end of the

year.

We desire that if any of our subscribers should decline taking the work for the next year, that they will advise us of that fact immediately. If not advised of their intention to discontinue in time for distributing the January number, we shall still consider them as subscribers, and forward the work.

Since distributing the tenth number we have discovered that the binders left out a portion of the sheets in some of the copies. Should any of these defective copies have been distributed, we will be pleased to forward perfect copies, provided those that are imperfect are returned.

We do not consider that our subscribers are under any obligation to aid us in extending the circulation of the Western Journal. All we ask of them is that they will pay us punctually, read it carefully, and criticise it freely, but without prejudice. Beyond this, we have no claim; this is all, and perhaps something more than we bargained for in the beginning, and if at the close of the volume we have failed to convince them that our labors are calculated to promote the social weal, we have certainly no right to claim their assistance in extending its circulation.

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME.

H. A. PROUT, M. D., St. Louis, Missouri-On the Geology of the Valley of the Mississippi-kaolin, pipe clays, &c.

Hon. JOHN M. KRUM, of St. Louis, Missouri-Obligation of Con

tracts.

THOMAS ALLEN, Esq., St. Louis, Missouri-Commerce and Navigation of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries.

EVANS CASSELBERRY, Esq., St. Louis, Missouri-On the Discovery, the first Settlement, and the first Laws of the Mississippi Valley. Public Education.

F. WOOLFORD, Esq., Caledonia, Missouri-On the Mineral Resour. ces of Washington County, Missouri; china clay, manufacture of china, &c., clays and minerals; discovery of galena among the primitive rocks, near Caledonia; discovery of cobalt, manganese, tin, &c. Hon. TIMOTHY WALKER, Cincinnati, Ohio-The Morals of Com

merce.

JOSEPH ORMROD, Esq., Cooper county, Missouri-Modern Literature. Mental Culture. Theory of Life and Happiness.

E. MALLINCKRODT, St. Louis, Missouri-History and Habits of the Potato.

ALFRED S. WAUGH, Esq., St. Louis, Missouri-Rise, Progress and Influence of the Fine Arts.-Architecture and Sculpture.

Hon. O. WILLIAMS, St. Louis county, Missouri-Subsoil Ploughing and Water Furrows.

D. CARLIN, Esq., St. Louis county, Missouri-Jerusalem Artichoke. HAMILTON SMITH, Esq., Louisville, Ky.-Ship Building on the Western Waters.

HENRY T. WATSON, Esq., St. Louis, Missouri-Lines to Miss Georgia W.

HUGH A. GARLAND, Esq., St. Louis, Missouri-Chapter from the Life of John Randolph.

J. T. CLEVELAND, Howard county, Missouri-On the Culture of Hemp.

JOHN H. TICE, Esq., St. Louis, Missouri-Education.

J. LOUGHBOROUGH, Liberty, Missouri-Early History of the Territory west of the Mississippi. North American Indians. Commerce of the East.

B. A. ALDERSON, Esq., St. Charles county, Missouri-Wheat Grow. ers' Association.

JOHN PERRY, Esq., of St. Louis, Mo.-Description of Lead Mines. JOSEPH COATSWORTH, St. Francis county, Missouri-Description of Mines, Ores, &c.

ERRATA.

The reader will please to make the following corrections:
Page 12, 1st line, for those read these.

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16 and 17, read tuber for tubus and tubor in sundry places.

17 in 18th line, strike out the word the before fungi-strike out the final e of the latter word.

27, 2d line, strike out the word up.

30, 3d line, under the head of "Coal Mines," read geological, instead of geographical.

35, 9th line, 3,7000 spindles, read 3,700 spindles.

37, 14th line, for the word this, before foreign, read their.

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38, for McCum read McCune.

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51, 8th line, instead of Captain H. M. Shreeve read Thomas Gray.

In the table of Steamboat arrivals in April and May, 1847, read 919 in

stead of 119.

"218, 20th line, for effected read affected.

218, 30th line, for expression read expansion.

"257, 20th line, under the head of Holcomb's Hemp Brake, for scratching

read hatcheling.

"304, 16th line, in place of privileges read frivolities.

"307, 23d line, in place of generation read creation.

"341, at the head of the table for June, 1846, read June, 1847.

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