...Channel near Vancouver on the Pacific Coast, he wrote his most famous grease-and-vermilion inscription: "Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three." This rock has been positively identified, and a permanent plaque now marks the spot....

...Indians guided him down the maze of western Canadian rivers to the coast, where on a rock he inscribed: "Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three." Reading Mackenzie's published account of his journey was one of the factors that pushed...

...his attention for what Mackenzie said he had written on a rock in paint of vermilion and hot grease: "Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three." By land! Instantly, the president had decided that time was critical and pressed Lewis...

...he took astronomical observations to determine his latitude and longitude. On the rock he inscribed: 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.' In 1926, the British Columbia government named the site of the rock Sir Alexander Mackenzie...

...the south-east face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial—"Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three."' 'That was nine years ago! And what has the United States done about it? Other than...

...read aloud to me in his harsh, nasal, schoolmasterly voice, "'I wrote on a rock above the western sea, Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada by land, the twentysecond of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.' "Oh," he cried out, smiting his metal dome in a way that would have done credit to my...

...Lewis and Clark had better PR. He got here - you can't really get to where he stopped - and wrote, "Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three." So the guy was no poet. His art was all in his ability to travel through anything. Attractions...

...In bold block letters he had printed a legend that struck Lewis squarely in the breastbone. It said: ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, FROM CANADA, BY LAND, THE TWENTY-SECOND OF JULY, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE. By land . . . "Well, look who's here," the president snapped. "Up at last. Congratulations."...

...and reach the Pacific? When he got there, he mixed red dye and animal fat and put his tag on a rock: "Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three." That Mackenzie. In Montreal in the summer of 1809, Isaac Wily 's father packed him off...

...characters, on the South-East face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial — "Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three."61 391 As I thought that we were too near the village, I consented to leave this place,...