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On the recordDecember 2, 1805
A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be communicated as soon as we shall receive some further relations which we have reason shortly to expect.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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Fifth Annual Message

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