alaska to come down the coast, but he was stopped by catherine the great one of the great zarate zareen from russian history. andre new show was a french botanist and jefferson as a founding member of the american philosophical society and philadelphia. got enough support to try to get him to at least find the flora of the west and bring that knowledge back to his friends at the philosophical society. unfortunately all three of these expeditions do not reach their zenith nor they successful in the in the terms that jefferson had hoped. when you look at it a european depiction of north america in 1800, you see that the spanish have been quite active and along the california coast. there's some french and spanish communities throughout the south and southeast and then the the pink indicates areas established or settled by the british in the the colonies area. but jefferson's vision of this empire of liberty was very powerful. you know, he he may not have ever traveled west of the blue ridge mountains, but his mind certainly traveled all the way to the pacific. and in 1800 he learned from