The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-03-30

WAsHrScros, March 30, ls49.

WAsHINGroS, March 30, ls49
You will much oblge friend and at ths same time
be doing act OF Justice TO honorable and deserving
men, by publishing the following communication, which
shall strive TO make as brief as possible.
appears that f there is any reliance to be placed ia
newspaper advertisements there is in the hands OF
Gary Hart, publishers, Philadelphia for the purpose
of publication, work denomnated ga Narrative OF the
Dead Sea Expedition, by one Of the party"
am aware that there thousands OF enlightened, m
teligent, and beraminded persons in favor OF every
enterprise which bids fair to add another jewel to the d.
adem OF science, who awaiting anxiously the publ
cation OF the account OF this highly interesting expedition,
which is expected to render familiar all most IN
teesng portion OF the Holy Land about which there nave
hitherto been many contradictory reports, but no well
grounded knowledge. Many of these persons hndins
that publishers well known Gary & Hart have
published work on thus subject pnrporiing 10 nave
been written by zone of the party will, without further
inquiry, suppose to be the veabe account OF the ex
petition; and after they have expended their dollar md
too late that they have been enapped into purchasing
book which has, TO say the least little or no information
TO give OF the subject upon which 1t pretepds TO treat
They may then, after having read the book think
that is the authentic account and their ideas of the o
GERS having the work in hand, and Of the government
appointing such officers, will be anything but compl-
menary to either.
WILL therefore, in as few words as possible, state who
the person is who writes this book what right he has
to ene himself some Of the party" and what were his
opportunities for acquiring his information
The writer was lo5lollytoy of the Supply" and was
Beirout Acre, and Jaa all of which places believe.
the Supply went His book is, fact, account of
the cruise of the Supply which he has nerlarded with
the yarns of one of the sailors who the exped
ton who, had he been capable, would have had
enough to do to attend to his oar, without troubling HIM
self with note book and pencil Or if of the
men had had the ability, time and means OF keeping a
journal. he would have been unable TO obtain the differ
ent scientific details which it the duty Of the officers
to procure and without which such work would be
valueless.
There were but three officers the expedition, and it
was they who kept notes OF it, who made the surveys
hydrographical and Typographical, who collected mine
rails took sketches, run lines of level, &c. and they
alone the enes therefore, who have the proper
erias for compiling the work. One of them, the be-
loved and lamened Lieut.. Dale died in Beirou from
fever contracted by the exposure consequent upon his
adelphia, employed in getting the only authentic and
scientific account of the expedition ready for publication
which, owing to the time required in getting the engra
wings of charts and sketches, and the meteorological and
botanical reports, &c. prepared, will not take place for
some weeks yet.
One NOT of the party