. Three years travels through the interior parts of North America, for more than five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north-west regions of that vast continent : with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects and fishes peculiar to the country : 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 a
. Three years travels through the interior parts of North America, for more than five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north-west regions of that vast continent : with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects and fishes peculiar to the country : 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. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. ,j<»-m. 's TRAVELS. 3^^ .thefe two tribes happen to meet at the fadory, they ;each encamp on their own dominions, at a fewyardi diftance from the ftockade, . The country adjacent eirher to the eafl or weft ijde of this lake, is compofed but of an indifferent .foil, except -where fmall brooks or riv6rs empty ' thfinifelves into it 5 on the banks of thefe it is ex- tiemcly^ fertile. Near the borders of the lake grow a great nmrijiber of fand chenries, T*'feich are not lefs remarkable for their manner of growth, tlian for their exquifite flavour. They grow ijpon a fmall ihrub, not more than four feet high, the boughs bf which are io loaded that they lie' in clufters on the fand. As tliey grow only on the fand, the j»armth 6f which probstbiy contributes, to bring <hem to futch perfedioii, they are called by the French, cherries de fa We, or fand chetries. The lize< of them does not exceed that of a fmall mulket ball, Lut they are reckoned fuperior to any other fort for the purpofe of fteeping in fpirits. There alfo grow around the lake, goofberries, black cur- rants, and an abundance of juniper, bearing grea'; (juautities of berries of tlie finelt fort, ' Sumack likewife grows her
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