. 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. â¢â ^⢠CARVER'S CHAPTER XIX. (. â . t ty M^ Trees, Shrubs^ Roots, Herbs, Flowersy hfc. 'y\ X SHALL here obfeive the fame method that I have purfued in the preceding chapter, and having igivvii a liil of the trees, he. which are na- tives of the interior parts of North- America, par- ticularize fnch only as differ from the produce of other countries, or, being little known, have not been defcribed. â ^^ OF TREES. < . vv .â The Oak, the Pine Tree, the Maple, the Afh, the Hemlock, the Bafs or White Wood, the Cedar, the Elm, the Birch, the Fir, the Locuft Tree, the Poplar, the Wickopick or Suckwicfc, the Spruce, the Horn-beam, and the Button Wood Tree. The OAK. There are feveral forts 6i oaks in thefe parts ; the black, the white, the red, tbo, yellow, the grey, the fwanip oak, and the chefnyt oak ; the five former vary but little in their external appearance, the fhape of the leaves, and the colour :'';.A' â ,:â !. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780. Glasgow : Pri
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