. 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. IblSfe Ildr#«gaiit%^t^ aft t^ iwqr 0«»^ *»^ Thii writer makes many other remarkt that m,ff{V»' ly fenmiie, and wWch appear to 1»e raft; b«t he inter- s^^ witli tfcefe, fomc tliat arc not fo wdl foimded. ^^ E^itillKl de liI6niez, a Pbrtug^efe, in his hittory cf BiazS; atferis, tiAt Amcridi has been whofly people^ %y'^ Carthaginiani and Ifraelites. H* fcfings M% proof of thb Jiflertion, the difcoteriet the farmer ite kndWn td have made at a great diftaiice beyond t\m ddaft of Africa. The progrefe of which being pat it Abp to by Ihe fettite of Carthage, thde who httipeiiei to ^ then in the nMj difcovcrcd conntriei^/yinyt^ <ir »om all commuiiic«tio|i with their coniitt'yiiliCtt,:«ii«|' defHtute of many nee^firica of life, ^:& into *late^ tmiai^ As to the Ifradltes, this author thinks tkm nbthitig'bfirt elfcumchion is wanted m order to etittl^sis n perfect rrfcmbUmce between jhem and the Bnii^pfti. %eiifgeS: Howin,n learned Dutchman, has MkeJ^ writt^ mi iWs fyMea. He (Hs out with dej^ai"*^^ that he does ndt bdieve it poffibk America cotdd' 1^«a peoflcdtefore theiood* confld^g thelhott 1^ ^i^iHich d9pledbeHri(en theerdit^^ nie%< and thai memor^le event. In the next^acehe fo) ddtn ai4r^(
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