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The first English edition of the "apocryphal" Lewis and Clark, being little more that a compilation and rehashing of Jefferson's Message of 1806, Patrick Gass's Journal published in 1807, and plagiarizations of portions of Jonathan Carver and Alexander Mackenzie. Despite its suspect origins, and the massive criticism it has received from scholars (Coues called it a "wretched meretricious compilation"), it is important in that it was for a time a major source of information on the Far West. The map, which is the same as the map published in the American edition of the same year (both had a Longman & Co. imprint, published Sept. 12th, 1809, engraved by Neele) is "Map of the Country Inhabited by the Western Tribes of Indians." It is the earliest published map with "legends stemming from Lewis and Clark... Here were the earliest published cartographic reflections of Lewis and Clark's great effort, and this fact alone distinguishes this small map, which otherwise harks back to earlier days." - Wheat, who lists Lester as the cartographer. Among the new features on the map is the presence of "F. Clatsop" at the mouth of the Columbia River. Field 928; Graff 2379; Howes L321; Sabin 40827; Smith 5894; Streeter Sale 3122; Wagner-Camp 8:2; Wheat Transmississippi 294.