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Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles, containing an account of the Great lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers...of the north-west regions of that vast continent...Together with a concise history of the genius, manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi; and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements
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Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles, containing an account of the Great lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers...of the north-west regions of that vast continent...Together with a concise history of the genius, manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi; and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements.
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Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, Printed by Charles Peirce, for David West, Boston, 1794.
Physical Description
xvi, vii, [9]-282 p. 18 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Zc20 778caL: Ms. note on front free end-paper: Lebanon Library.
Notes
First edition, London, 1778, published under Title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. 3d edition, London, 1781, edited by J.C. Lettsom.
For discussion as to authorship, etc., cf. "The travels of Jonathan Carver", by E.G. Bourne (American historical review, Jan. 1906) also "A bibliography of Carver's Travels" and "Captain Jonathan Carver: additional data", by J.T. Lee.
"A short vocabulary of the Chipeway language": p. 215-223.
"A short vocabulary of the Naudowessie language": p. 223-228.
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English
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June 01, 2002
References
English short title catalogue, W28308
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Annotations (Provenance) - 19th century.
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