. 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. ip CARVER'S higheft of thefe, and had an extenfive view of the /country. For many miles nothing was to be feer^ but lefler mountains, which appeared at a diftance like haycocks, they being free from trees. Only a few groves of hickory, and flujited oaks, covered fome of the vallies. So plentiful is lead here, that 1 faw large quantities of it lying about the ftreets in the town belonging to the Saukies, and it feemed to be as good as the produce of other countries. On the loth of O£lober we proceeded down the iriver, and the ne^t day reached this firft town of the ^ pttigaumies. This town contained about fifty houfes, but We found mofl: of them deferted, on account of an epidemical diforder that had lately raged among them, and carried off more than one half of the inhabitants. The greater part of thofe who fur- vived, had retired into the woods, to avoid the contagion,, . :, On jthe-ijth, we entered that extenfive river the Mifriflipjji. The Ouifeonfin, from the carrying plffce to the part where it falls into the Mifliflippi, flows with a fmooth, but ftrong current; the water of it is exceedingly clear, artd through it you may perceive a fine fandy bottom, tolerably free from yocks.
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