Lewis

MERI WETHER, (loo'is,) an American explorer, B. in Va., 1774, engaged with Clarke in 1805 in the memorable expedition which discovered the sources of the Mi ouri, and first opened out to the whites the vast regions of the far Northwest of the N. American continent. D. 1809. Lew'is (OF FRANCE AND GERMANY). See Louis, and LUDWIG. [s. 541]