. 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 app
. 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. hgm 4nt MU^ogy of tMr iMgnift irith ibd^aM Ml it |||j||[|ufiB(l in the direc otlier ptfli of tiK gl«^ ^pm£|||J«- L 0uul only add the opinion of one an^it' no*c, be. fere I own iendmentt on the fit^«i^» and that ia^^C^ Jaaiet Adair« Efq. who refided fovtv yeaia among ||ikt494ii^«» and published the tbem in the yor 1772. In his learned and. fyftemadcal hiftory of licMfe nations, inhabitiAig the weftern parts of the noil fiiuthem of the American colonies; this gentletnan ii^thfi|t hefit^tion pronounces that the American Abori- gines are defcendedfrom the Ifraelites« either whilft they were, a niaritime power, or foon after their, gena«l 'KsdefceBt he endeavors to prove firom their religi* odis rites> their ciyil and martial ctiftoms, their mama^ git, their funeral ceremonies, their manaen, laaguagf, t^iditionsv, and from a variety of other particulars. And fi» complete is his convidion on this head, diat he laii* ciei he finds ^ and indifputable fimilitude in etch. "llurmMh ail thefe I have not time to follow hiniy and ttaB^ thcirefore onl^ give a few extra^, to (hew^on what SBPpditipn. builds ^ures,- and what degree jofL«Kdi( he is entitled tO;On tbi
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